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The chamber rejected a resolution to force the president to end the war after he criticized Republicans for undermining his administration\u2019s negotiations. <\/strong><\/p>

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) leaves a closed-door meeting with the president and Republican senators on Wednesday. (J. Scott Applewhite\/Ap Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The resolution failed 50-47 on a late-night procedural vote. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who voted with Democrats for Tuesday\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy opinion on the debate over war and executive power has not changed and I have voted that way several times,\u201d Paul wrote on X. \u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Trump berated the four Republicans who voted for Tuesday\u2019s resolution publicly and privately, writing on social media that they \u201cprovided aid and comfort [to] the Enemy.\u201d He questioned why any Republican would vote for such a resolution<\/a> during a closed-door lunch with Senate Republicans on Wednesday, which led to a shouting match with Cassidy.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) described Trump as \u201cmad as a murder hornet\u201d about the vote during lunch.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut yourself in his shoes,\u201d Kennedy told reporters. \u201cHe\u2019s right in the middle of delicate negotiations and the Senate votes to get out of Iran.\u201d<\/p>

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Democrats have forced repeated votes since the start of the war in February to block Trump from ordering further strikes on Iran. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 states that the president must remove U.S. forces engaged in hostilities abroad without congressional authorization if Congress passes such a resolution, though the White House and some Republicans have argued that it is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Wednesday night\u2019s vote was the second procedural vote on this resolution after the Senate voted last month to advance it. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), who introduced the resolution, said he did not want to force the next vote on it until he secured enough Republican support to be sure it would pass.<\/p>\n

But it was Republicans \u2014 not Democrats \u2014 who forced Wednesday\u2019s vote. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Sen. John Barrasso (Wyoming), the No. 2 Senate Republican, worked with the administration after the contentious lunch to convince Senate Republicans who supported previous resolutions to switch their votes, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the discussions.<\/p>\n

Cassidy, who pressed Trump during the lunch on why the war had dragged on so long, said Vice President JD Vance and Steve Witkoff, Trump\u2019s special envoy to the Middle East, briefed him Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciate the quick invitation to the White House to address many of my concerns,\u201d Cassidy wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kaine blamed the defeat on the \u201ctemper tantrum\u201d that Trump threw during his lunch with Republican senators and said it did not negate the passage of Tuesday\u2019s resolution to block Trump from resuming the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vote is of no consequence and does not undo the expressed position of Congress that further war against Iran is illegal unless Congress votes for it,\u201d Kaine said in a statement.<\/p>\n

But Trump immediately hailed it as a victory, thanking Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) and Thune on social media for their efforts.<\/p>

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\u201cThis vote puts Iran on notice!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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