The Senate rejected a House-passed resolution to end the US war with Iran, 49-50, on Thursday, despite four Republicans voting for it; Democrat John Fetterman opposed it. The conflict has passed 200 days and killed 19 US service members.
Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Andy Kim forced the vote under the War Powers Resolution, which lets lawmakers bring such measures to the floor. The House passed it with bipartisan support last week. Trump ordered US forces to attack Iran alongside Israel at the end of February. Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul and Susan Collins voted for the resolution; it was Tillis's first such vote. Bill Cassidy, whose vote had been key to passage of a resolution in June, voted no.
Kim said more than 750 US service members had been injured and cited a Congressional Budget Office report estimating the war's first-four-month cost at nearly $40bn. He also said estimates showed higher gasoline prices had cost US households about $900 each since the war began. Some Republicans running in key congressional and gubernatorial races have recently called for an end to the conflict, which has worsened inflation that Trump campaigned on ending. Sen. Tim Kaine said Democrats would keep bringing war powers resolutions weekly.
