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The vast majority of US Senate<\/a> Republicans<\/a> were joined by Democratic Sen. John Fetterman<\/a> on Thursday in voting against a war powers resolution to block the Trump administration<\/a> from continuing to attack Iran without congressional approval, as new polling showed<\/a> nearly two-thirds of Americans think the war is not worth fighting.<\/p>\n

For the second time in as many weeks and the 13th time this year, Senate Democrats called on<\/a> Republicans to limit President Donald Trump’s authority to take military action, pointing to rising anger over the assault on Iran, which has killed at least 18 US service members and more than 3,400 Iranians, as well as thousands more across the region, mostly in Lebanon<\/a>, as Iran has retaliated in the unprovoked US-Israeli conflict. <\/p>\n

\u201cAre Senate Republicans listening? The country is clamoring for you to end this war,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) said<\/a>. \u201cI urge and plead with my Republican colleagues: Listen to the American people. Vote to end this war. We\u2019re going to keep forcing Republicans to vote until we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Associated Press-NORC Research Center poll released<\/a> Thursday showed that 64% of Americans disapprove of the continuation of the war, including 37% of Republicans. Seventy percent of respondents said the Trump administration should prioritize a permanent ceasefire with Iran after a memorandum of understanding to end the war collapsed in early July and Trump relaunched attacks on the Middle Eastern country. <\/p>\n

Seventy-two percent of respondents also said it was “extremely” or “very” important to them to ensure gas and oil<\/a> prices are reduced after the war. Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent the price of gas soaring\u2014adding to Americans’ concerns over the rising cost of essentials. <\/p>\n

Three Republicans\u2014Sens. Susan Collins<\/a> (Maine<\/a>), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Rand Paul (Ky.)\u2014joined Democrats in supporting the war powers resolution, with a final vote of 50-49. But even Republicans who supported allowing Trump to continue the war he started in February, despite the fact that the War Powers Act of 1973 only gives him 60-90 days to end a conflict he has started, addressed the cost-of-living crisis the war is worsening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rising gas prices are a real concern to everybody,\u201d Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand<\/a> (D-NY) said on the Senate floor Thursday that while Trump is “pouring billions of tax dollars into an open ended war in Iran, this reckless war is driving up monthly bills and making everyday life harder for working families. “<\/p>\n

The resolution failed hours after Iranian media reported<\/a> that one of the strikes by US Central Command Wednesday night had killed<\/a> a family of three, including a 2-year-old child. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vast majority of US Senate Republicans were joined by Democratic Sen. John Fetterman on Thursday in voting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[145],"tags":[504,197,525,3945,520,4219,9820,11543],"class_list":["post-172244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chuck-schumer","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-iran-war","tag-kirsten-gillibrand","tag-republican-party","tag-trump-administration","tag-us-military","tag-us-senate","tag-war-powers-resolution"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117010669609036087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}