Dems score win as GOP senator helps advance Iran war powers resolution
Sen Chris Murphy predicts that 'one of these war powers resolutions very soon will pass' the Senate
By Alex Miller Fox News
Published May 19, 2026 5:52pm EDT
A Senate Republican spurned by President Donald Trump joined Senate Democrats to handcuff his war powers in Iran and provided the key vote to advance a war powers resolution through a key hurdle.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who lost his primary bid over the weekend, sided with Senate Democrats in their war of attrition to curtail Trump's policing powers in the Middle East. It comes after Democrats successfully gained another defector, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week.
Democrats' gambit finally worked after seven failed tries, with four Senate Republicans joining them to move the measure forward. But there is still a long way to go before the resolution becomes official. And even if it were to succeed, Democrats likely do not have a veto-proof coalition to counter Trump.
While much of the focus in the upper chamber has shifted elsewhere, like to funding immigration enforcement for the next three-and-a-half years or Trump’s bombshell endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Democrats still plan to plow ahead with war powers resolution after another.
And it comes after Trump declared that he postponed a "major attack" against Iran after allies in the region pressed for more time to continue negotiations.
"Trump’s no closer to ending this war, no closer to bringing down the skyrocketing costs of this war, no closer to getting our troops out of harm’s way," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor.
"Senate Republicans must not continue to allow Trump to remain stuck in this never-ending loop of threats and failed negotiations," he continued.
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