Senate rejects effort to rebuke Trump over war in Iran

The Senate failed to advance a resolution Thursday aimed at rebuking President Donald Trump over the war in Iran. The final tally was 49-50.

In June, during the ceasefire, the Senate adopted a resolution aimed at removing military forces from Iran, though the chamber walked back the rebuke a day later when they failed to advance a similar war powers measure.

Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Rand Paul voted with Democrats to limit the president’s war powers, while Democratic Sen. John Fetterman voted with the rest of the Republican conference to reject the measure.

The president has sharply criticized Republicans for voting for to advance previous war powers resolutions, chastising them in meetings and posting on Truth Social that they are “losers” who “made my job more difficult.”

Sen. Bill Cassidy had previously pushed back on the lack of transparency surrounding the war on the Senate floor and went toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump over the issue during a closed-door Republican luncheon in June. After receiving a briefing, Cassidy voted against the next war powers measure to come to the floor for a vote.

This is the 13th time the Senate has voted on an Iran war powers measure since the beginning of the year.