The US Senate backed legislation on Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to stop American military action against Iran.
The Senate voted 50-48 in favor of the war powers resolution, which passed the House of Representatives earlier this month, reflecting growing concern even among some of Trump’s Republicans about the unpopular conflict that began on February 28.
While likely to remain largely symbolic, the vote comes as the administration is expected to ask Congress to authorise tens of billions of dollars to pay for the war.
Iranian protesters and a child step on a poster with a vampire-like illustration of US President Donald Trump. (Picture: Getty Images)The high cost of war
A poll released on Tuesday showed that just one in four Americans believe the war with Iran was worth its costs, and a majority worry that a truce with Tehran is unlikely to last.
Trump’s administration is working to negotiate a peace agreement with Iran. Support for the resolution in Congress is likely to put pressure on the president not to resume hostilities, something he has suggested he might do if negotiations falter.
On Tuesday, a White House official said the Senate vote has no significance because the resolutions do not go to the president and have no force of law and the measure passed only because two Republicans were absent.
The official also said the resolution directs Trump to remove US forces from hostilities, which the White House says were terminated with a ceasefire on April 7.
A yellow flag belonging to the Iran-backed group Hezbollah on top of the rubble of a destroyed building. (Picture: Joseph Eid/ AFP via Getty Images)Is the vote legal?
Experts say the constitutionality of the War Powers Act, upon which the House and Senate votes were based, likely will be settled in the courts.
“The executive branch will likely ignore it on constitutional grounds, and it’s not clear who might have standing to sue to enforce it,” said Scott Anderson, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and senior editor of the online legal publication Lawfare.
Representative Gregory Meeks of New York, who sponsored the resolution in the House, said he viewed the resolution as binding and would pursue all legal avenues to ensure that the administration complies.
Democrats also noted that the US Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the right to take the country to war. “Congress has to own this responsibility,” Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said in a speech urging support for the measure.
Democratic lawmakers have promised additional votes on war powers measures, saying they want to force Republicans to go on the record about the war.
With input from Reuters
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