The House passed a resolution to end the Iran War with a vote of 215 to 208 Wednesday.
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump called it “meaningless” and called those who supported the measure “unpatriotic.”
“Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) and Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) voted the same as all 211 Democrats in attendance to support the resolution.
“Who would do such an unpatriotic thing. They know where the negotiations stand,” Trump wrote. “The Democrats are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They would rather have our Country fail than give me another, of many, victories. The four Republicans, that’s a whole other story – They’re GRANDSTANDERS! They should be ashamed of themselves. MAGA!!! President DJT”
The Middle East conflict is unpopular among Americans, with 64% of respondents to a recent New York Times/Siena College poll saying the U.S. made the wrong decision in joining Israel in launching strikes against the Islamic Republic.
The Senate, which is in session until the Juneteenth federal holiday, will now take up the resolution.
Last month, four Republicans in the upper chamber — Sens. Bill Cassidy(La.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Rand Paul (Ky.) — agreeded with all but one Democrat in voting to discharge a war powers resolution out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) was the lone Democrat.
The motion passed in a vote of 50-47, setting up a future vote to proceed to the motion on the Senate floor.
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), the sponsor, said after the House passed the resolution l Wednesday that he will “continue pushing” his Senate colleagues “to end this unnecessary and costly war when my War Powers Resolution comes up for its next vote soon.”
If the resolution passes the Senate, Trump will likely contest it.
The administration has stated that the War Powers Act of 1973 — which gives presidents a 60-day window to launch military operations without congressional approval, in the name of national defense, and the option for a 30-day extension — is unconstitutional.
“The War Powers Act is unconstitutional, 100 percent. Now, this is not the position of me. It’s not the position of [the president],” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters last month. “This is the position that every single president that has occupied this position since the day that law passed.”
“Even as a senator I would say that the War Powers Act is 100% unconstitutional,” he said.
