Four times. That's how many tries the Democrats have made in the U.S. Senate to restrain President Donald Trump's ability to wage war against Iran as commander in chief of our military. And they just failed for the fourth time, after the latest attempt on Wednesday.
It was again an exercise in futility:
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a resolution to limit President Trump’s war authority in Iran for the fourth time as the conflict inches closer to the 60-day limit laid out in the War Powers Act.
The vote was 47-52, mostly along party lines, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voting with Democrats in favor of the bill and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) opposing it. Their votes have remained the same since the Senate’s first Iran war powers vote in March. Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) did not vote.
The legislation was pushed onto the Senate floor by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who posted the urgent reason on her X account in a post, The Hill reported in the story linked above:
Today, I'm forcing a vote on my War Powers Resolution to end Trump's needless and expensive war of choice against Iran.
The American people do not want higher costs, rampant lies and chaos. The Senate must act.
So, it is true that the Democrats tried for the first time in March over Operation Epic Fury, as RedState's Bob Hoge wrote then on what's in the resolution... and its slim-to-none chances of ever becoming law:
The resolution demanded that the administration remove “the United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Iran, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force.”
If it somehow did pass the House and Senate, Trump would have vetoed it before the ink was dry, so the entire affair was mostly symbolic.
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This didn't start in March, though. We've been keeping track, all the way back to Nov. 6, 2025, when my colleague streiff wrote on an earlier effort to throttle Trump 47, which failed to get out of committee (though Dems did have two GOP votes in Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Murkowski of Alaska), which was ostensibly about U.S. military action in Venezuela.
Even in that case, streiff noted, it was the second time in a month a vote had been tried in the upper chamber. But leave it to the Dems to keep banging away at worthless agenda items. And it's not about Venezuela, Iran, or any place else. We all know what it's about. The next election, and keeping any grasp they can on power they have accrued to themselves.
Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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