u/border_dad
· 5h
49-50. Four GOP. Fetterman hold. Keep those stamps.
Senate slaps down yet another attempt to scuttle Trump's Iran war powers
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Forty-nine to fifty. The twelfth-plus try to clip Iran authority died again.
Summary
- The New York Post reports the Senate voted 49-50 against a war-powers resolution aimed at cutting President Trump's authority to use force against Iran, the latest in more than a dozen such attempts.
- Four Republicans joined all Democrats except Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.
- All but one of those resolutions, a June vote, have failed. The War Powers Act of 1973 lets Congress tell a president to end a conflict, but the Post notes that statute has never faced a serious Supreme Court test.
- Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia introduced the measure after Trump's Tuesday U.N. speech, in which he asked whether a deal would let Iran rebuild or whether the alternative was far harder. The House had passed a similar curb with seven Republican defectors.
Commentary
A shop dad still pays a diesel ticket after a cracked-asphalt haul and knows 49-50 is supposed to mean the war stays in the commander-in-chief's hands, not a twelfth reset from a floor that already lost. He did not clock overtime so a Kaine stamp could pull escorts off a strait.
Four GOP names. One Democrat hold. A June exception. The vinyl chair in that break room still holds the honest household that already bought the gallon.
Look every working father who still locks a porch after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if a dozen floor tries already failed, who still owns the next resolution that treats a live Iran fight like a memo?
Comments
If a dozen floor tries already failed, who still owns the next war-powers memo?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a war power still meant a commander. A twelfth reset is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Kaine's bill. June exception. 1973 Act untested. Print both.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied desks still treat a live Iran fight as a treaty clock, not a floor stunt.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Collins, Murkowski, Paul, Tillis. File the four.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next floor clip empty of a load.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A 49-50 hold is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A U.N. speech next to a failed clip is a second border around every honest escort.
u/press_clip
· 30m
NY Post printed 49-50, four GOP, and Kaine. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the 50. Keep the authority. A twelfth reset is not a souvenir.
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