Trump knocks GOP senators who voted for Iran war powers resolution, making his ‘job more difficult’
by Sarah Davis - 06/24/26 8:36 AM ET
President Trump lashed out at the Republican lawmakers who supported an Iran war powers resolution in the Senate on Tuesday.
Several GOP lawmakers voted with nearly all Democrats to approve the measure, including Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine) and Rand Paul (Ky.).
“Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and Iran asked my people, ‘what does that all mean?’ These Senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other, because I always get it done!” the president wrote in a Truth Social post on Tuesday evening.
While the resolution has no force of law, it does send a strong message to the Trump administration to remove U.S. troops from the nearly four-month-long conflict.
The White House is engaged in ongoing negotiations with Tehran after the president signed a memorandum of understanding to restart nuclear talks.
“So, I have Iran on the ‘ropes,’ ready to go down for the fall, willing to give us practically anything, and for the first time in decades, respecting the hell out of the United States and its President, ME, and the U.S. Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War Powers Act Vote, telling the Number One Sponser of Terror in the World that the United States doesn’t like what I am doing to them, and I must stop, and by so doing has provided aid and comfort the Enemy,” Trump continued in his Tuesday post.
The Senate resolution follows the passage of a similar measure in the House earlier this month. Four Republicans joined all Democrats in the lower chamber to support the resolution.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the successful Senate resolution in a Tuesday statement shared on social media.
“I thank my Democratic colleagues and the Republicans who joined us across party lines for saying enough is enough,” Meeks said. “After months of war, billions of taxpayer dollars spent, and 14 dead U.S. service members, Trump’s illegal war hasn’t achieved a single core U.S. objective with respect to Iran.”
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