Under pressure from Trump, Republican-led Senate reverses course on Iran

[excalibur]

The changed their vote on the resolution.

Presidential muscle.

The Senate rejected a resolution Wednesday to block President Donald Trump from resuming the war with Iran after he complained that the passage of a similar resolution Tuesday undermined ongoing negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program.

The resolution failed 50-47 on a late-night procedural vote. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who voted with Democrats for Tuesday’s resolution, flipped and voted against advancing this one. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), who has voted for every previous resolution since the war started, voted present rather than directly opposing Trump.

“My opinion on the debate over war and executive power has not changed and I have voted that way several times,” Paul wrote on X. “But since hostilities seem to be over and the President asked me to give consideration to his negotiating position, I will do so. My vote of present is a way to give the President more space and leverage to negotiate a lasting peace.”

Two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine), voted with Democrats to advance the resolution. One Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania), voted against it.

The vote is a defeat for Democrats who celebrated the passage of a similar war powers resolution Tuesday as a symbolic rebuke of the unpopular war.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/under-pressure-trump-republican-led-senate-reverses-course-iran/

 

[White 6]

The changed their vote on the resolution.

Presidential muscle.

The Senate rejected a resolution Wednesday to block President Donald Trump from resuming the war with Iran after he complained that the passage of a similar resolution Tuesday undermined ongoing negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program.​

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The resolution failed 50-47 on a late-night procedural vote. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who voted with Democrats for Tuesday’s resolution, flipped and voted against advancing this one. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), who has voted for every previous resolution since the war started, voted present rather than directly opposing Trump.​

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“My opinion on the debate over war and executive power has not changed and I have voted that way several times,” Paul wrote on X. “But since hostilities seem to be over and the President asked me to give consideration to his negotiating position, I will do so. My vote of present is a way to give the President more space and leverage to negotiate a lasting peace.”​

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Two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine), voted with Democrats to advance the resolution. One Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania), voted against it.​

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The vote is a defeat for Democrats who celebrated the passage of a similar war powers resolution Tuesday as a symbolic rebuke of the unpopular war.​

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/under-pressure-trump-republican-led-senate-reverses-course-iran/

Republicans are simply political cowards. Dumbass Trump should not have gone to war in the first place. Now neither he, nor the cowards in the Senate, know how to get us out of his mess and save any face at all, so they will let him have his war. Meanwhile, controls the straits of hormuz, there is no date when inspections of any nuclear material will resume. They get to keep their missiles, ship and sell their oil, and we are going to give them 300+ Billion, for Trump's folly.

 

[excalibur]

Republicans are simply political cowards. Dumbass Trump should not have gone to war in the first place. Now neither he, nor the cowards in the Senate, know how to get us out of his mess and save any face at all, so they will let him have his war. Meanwhile, controls the straits of hormuz, there is no date when inspections of any nuclear material will resume. They get to keep their missiles, ship and sell their oil, and we are going to give them 300+ Billion, for Trump's folly.

You so misread things it is amazing.

 

[MisterBeale]

yeah,

Trump has closed the straight and won this war over a dozen times already!

 

[wamose]

It's sad when a major party is rooting against their own country in a war. Our communist bent Democrats would rather see the US lose than to give Trump a victory. Beware the communists that are trying to take you over.

 

[Political-Junkie]

It's sad when a major party is rooting against their own country in a war. Our communist bent Democrats would rather see the US lose than to give Trump a victory. Beware the communists that are trying to take you over.

We must overcome the demoralization of America by the Communists.

 

[wamose]

We must overcome the demoralization of America by the Communists.

I think most of the people who are drawn to communism are the gullible youth who have been brainwashed by our defective education system, along with an assortment of greedy billionaires, looking to make a killing for themselves and the usual slackers who hope to get something for nothing. That's a piss poor coalition.

 

[Political-Junkie]

I think most of the people who are drawn to communism are the gullible youth who have been brainwashed by our defective education system, along with an assortment of greedy billionaires, looking to make a killing for themselves and the usual slackers who hope to get something for nothing. That's a piss poor coalition.

Thanks for the thumbs up wamose. I have to correct that quote though.

"We must overcome the demoralization of Germany by the Communists."

 

[Blaster]

The usual culprits - Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Cassidy.

 

[kyzr]

The usual culprits - Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Cassidy.

Add Tillis, Cornyn, and McConnell who oppose the Save America Act and ending the filibuster before the democrats do.