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Dara Kerr

INSANE: Us senate votes down resolution to restrict trump from escalating iran war | Vintage Vibes

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Democrat Tim Kaine, who introduced the resolution, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on 19 May 2025. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

Senate Democrats failed on Friday to get a war-powers resolution passed to limit Donald Trump’s ability to single-handedly escalate the war with Iran. The resolution, “to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran”, was voted down 53-47.

The vote on the resolution, introduced by the Democratic senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, split along mainly partisan lines. One Republican, Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted for it; one Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voted against it.

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