Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Senate adopted a resolution on June 23 directing the President to remove military forces from the conflict with Iran, a significant rebuke to Donald Trump and a strong message that the war lacks support in Congress.
Democrats have repeatedly forced votes to limit Trump’s war powers in both the House and the Senate — a campaign that has gradually picked up more GOP support in recent weeks, drawing the president’s ire.
GOP Sens. Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy joined Democrats in voting for the resolution, while Democratic Sen. John Fetterman voted against it. The final tally was 50- 48. The absences of GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell and Dave McCormick, who have previously voted against advancing war powers resolutions, contributed to the measure’s adoption. Trump called the vote “poorly timed and meaningless” in a post on Truth Social.
He added that the Senate, by adopting the resolution “has provided aid and comfort [to] the Enemy.”
“Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and Iran asked my people, ‘what does that all mean?’ These Senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other,” Trump said.
The measure passed the House earlier this month. But because it is what’s known as a concurrent resolution, it does not require the President’s signature and, by definition.
