Senate Rebukes Iran War

The Senate voted 50-48 to approve a House-passed war powers resolution directing President Donald Trump to end U.S. hostilities against Iran unless Congress authorizes further military action. Four Republicans — Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — joined Democrats, while two Republican senators were absent and Democrat John Fetterman opposed the measure. The vote marked the first time both chambers of Congress approved such a resolution on the Iran conflict after repeated Democratic attempts, delivering a bipartisan rebuke of Trump’s handling of the war. Although the measure signals escalating congressional unease, it is largely symbolic and unlikely to force an immediate change in policy without presidential cooperation or legal enforceability.