{"id":6712,"date":"2026-09-26T02:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:54:57","slug":"fetterman-breaks-with-democrats-on-iran-war-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=6712","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Breaks With Democrats on Iran War Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate narrowly rejected a resolution Thursday that would have directed President Donald Trump to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress authorized continued military action. The official Senate tally was 49 in favor, 50 against and one senator not voting. U.S. Senate<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat to vote against H.Con.Res.89. Four Republicans\u2014Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul and Thom Tillis\u2014crossed party lines and supported it. Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland did not vote. Had Fetterman voted yes with the tally otherwise unchanged, the resolution would have passed 50-49. U.S. Senate<br \/>\n<span class=\"ellipsis\" id=\"ellipsis-1688638109\">...<\/span><span class=\"rmwp-button-wrap\" id=\"rmwp-button-wrap-1688638109\" style=\"display: none;\"><button name=\"read more\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"rmwpButtonAction( '1688638109', 'READ MORE', 'READ LESS' )\">READ MORE<\/button><\/span><div class=\"rmwp-toggle \" id=\"rmwp-toggle-1688638109\" style=\"display: none\"><br \/>\nThe measure, introduced by Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal, had already passed the House on July 23 by a bipartisan 214-208 vote. Its stated purpose was to direct the president, under the War Powers Resolution, to end U.S. participation in hostilities against Iran without a declaration of war or congressional authorization. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that this was the Senate\u2019s 14th Iran war-powers vote since U.S. and Israeli strikes began on February 28. Supporters argue Congress should have a greater role in decisions about prolonged military action, while opponents maintain that Trump possesses sufficient commander-in-chief authority to continue the operations. Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s vote therefore highlighted an unusual bipartisan split: nearly every Democrat supported restricting the administration\u2019s war powers, four Republicans joined them, and one Democrat provided the decisive opposing vote.                              <\/div><div class='rmwp-toggle-end'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate narrowly rejected a resolution Thursday that would have directed President Donald Trump to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress authorized continued military action. The official Senate tally was 49 in favor, 50 against and one senator not voting. U.S. Senate Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6714,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions\/6714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}