{"id":6762,"date":"2026-09-27T02:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2026-09-27T02:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:19:30","slug":"fetterman-breaks-with-democrats-to-sink-iran-war-powers-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=6762","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Breaks With Democrats to Sink Iran War Powers Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate narrowly rejected a war powers resolution on September 24 that would have directed President Donald Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress authorized continued military action. The official tally on H.Con.Res.89 was 49-50, with one senator not voting.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ellipsis\" id=\"ellipsis-193524525\">...<\/span><span class=\"rmwp-button-wrap\" id=\"rmwp-button-wrap-193524525\" style=\"display: none;\"><button name=\"read more\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"rmwpButtonAction( '193524525', 'READ MORE', 'READ LESS' )\">READ MORE<\/button><\/span><div class=\"rmwp-toggle \" id=\"rmwp-toggle-193524525\" style=\"display: none\"><br \/>\nSen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat to vote against the resolution. Four Republicans\u2014Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis\u2014joined Democrats and independents in supporting it, while Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks did not vote. If Fetterman had switched his vote with everything else unchanged, the measure would have passed 50-49.<\/p>\n<p>The House had already approved the measure 214-208 on July 23, with four Republicans joining 210 Democrats. The resolution invoked the War Powers Resolution and called for U.S. forces to be removed from hostilities with Iran without a declaration of war or other congressional authorization.<\/p>\n<p>The September vote was the Senate\u2019s 14th consideration of an Iran war-powers measure since the conflict began on February 28. Rising fuel costs have also become part of the debate, with AAA data cited by the Associated Press showing diesel prices above $6 per gallon. The Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s position is consistent with his previous public support for the administration\u2019s Iran campaign. In April, he defended the military operation and said he believed U.S. actions had made the world safer. Fox News<\/p>\n<p>The vote demonstrated significant cross-party disagreement over the scope of presidential war powers even as the resolution ultimately failed.                                 <\/div><div class='rmwp-toggle-end'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate narrowly rejected a war powers resolution on September 24 that would have directed President Donald Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress authorized continued military action. The official tally on H.Con.Res.89 was 49-50, with one senator not voting. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat to vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6762","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\/6762","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=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}