US House votes to stop Iran war in rebuke to Trump
Measure will not end US military attacks on Iran, but it underscores the backlash against Trump over the war
The Republican-led House voted to halt the US war with Iran, breaking with President Donald Trump on an unpopular foreign conflict that is taking an escalating economic toll on Americans.
The 215-208 vote on Wednesday showed worries over the war spreading in the president’s own party five months before congressional elections. Last month, a Senate resolution to end the war also advanced past a procedural hurdle for the first time, though that legislation hasn’t yet come to a formal vote.
The House vote would not end US military attacks on Iran. The Senate would still have to pass the resolution and provisions in the 1973 War Powers Act that the House invoked were legally controversial anyway.
Still, the House’s new stance trumpets to a global audience the president’s increasing isolation on the war as talks on an interim peace deal drag on and tensions flare across the Middle East.
Four Republicans joined all Democrats present to pass the resolution: Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania. It was the fourth time this year Democrats forced a vote on the war and the first time they attracted enough Republican support to prevail.