House Passes War Powers Resolution To Limit President Trump’s Military Operations In Iran, 7 Republicans Vote With Democrats

For a third time, the U.S. House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval.

The roll call late Tuesday, 220-204, was similar to earlier efforts this summer, with a few more Republicans joining all Democrats voting to bring an end to the conflict. None of the resolutions have made it to the president’s desk, where Trump would almost certainly veto the measure.

“Remember when Donald Trump said that this war would last just a few weeks?” said Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., who served as a Marine during the Iraq War and pushed the resolution forward.

He said it’s time for Congress to “actually ask tough questions, as the Constitution directs us to do, rather than be subservient to another warmongering administration.”

Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, questioned which military resources Democrats would want to remove from the region where he said Iran remains a threat.

Mast said Trump is against “forever wars, and that is what he is ending” — the decades of hostilities from Iran.

“They are a continuous ongoing threat to the United States,” Mast said. “Enough is enough.”

The action is likely the last House vote on the Iran war ahead of the midterm elections, where the conflict overseas is playing a substantial role in the political campaigns. The war that Trump launched Feb. 28 has dragged, with on-again, off-again deadly missile strikes being exchanged and causing havoc in the region for nearly seven months.

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New: The U.S. House has voted to approved a War Powers Resolution to end U.S. military action against Iran without congressional authorization

7 Republicans voted for this:

Marinette Miller-Meeks (IA-1st)

Zach Nunn (IA-3rd)

Thomas Massie (KY-4th)

Tom Barrett (MI-7th)… pic.twitter.com/V3AXGi1O5I

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Marinette Miller-Meeks (IA-1st)

Zach Nunn (IA-3rd)

Thomas Massie (KY-4th)

Tom Barrett (MI-7th)

Warren Davidson (OH-8th)

Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1st)

Nancy Mace (SC-1st)

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