War powers resolution fails as Senate Republicans stand by Trump on Iran
Sen Kirsten Gillibrand's effort to force withdrawal failed as only a small cohort of GOP senators crossed the aisle
By Alex Miller Fox News
Published July 30, 2026 1:19pm EDT
Despite reports of waning munitions, spiking gas prices and concerns of no clear objectives moving forward, Senate Republicans are still giving President Donald Trump wiggle room in the war in Iran.
Republicans again blocked another war powers resolution to force an immediate withdrawal of America’s military might from Iran on Thursday. Senate Democrats have tried and failed to convince enough of their Republican colleagues to consistently buck the war over a dozen times as it stretches into its fifth month.
The latest effort from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., failed along similar lines as last week’s effort, where only a small cohort of Senate Republicans crossed the aisle to end the war.
One Republican who did join Democrats, but has since reversed course, is Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who got into a shouting match with Trump and demanded a briefing on the situation in Iran.
He got that briefing and has since flipped his vote, which he acknowledged was used as "leverage to get some information." Still, he doesn’t totally support what’s going on, but used "All the King's Men" as an example to show that the situation and the politics of it are not black and white.
"It is a gradation," Cassidy said. "What we're doing here is a gradation, a murkiness, a vagueness, but we're trying to see our way through it. And I'm trying to see my way through it."
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