{"id":1512,"date":"2026-06-09T21:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:41:41","slug":"explainer-congress-has-backed-iran-war-powers-resolutions-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: Congress has backed Iran war powers resolutions. Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Companies<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><ul><li><svg><\/svg><div><div><div><button><span><span>Follow<\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div>WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; For the first time since the war on Iran began on February 28, the Republican-led U.S. Congress has backed resolutions that could block Republican President Donald Trump from continuing hostilities, reflecting growing concern among members of his party about the three-month-long conflict.<\/div><div>The House of Representatives voted in \u200bfavor of a war powers resolution on June 4 and the Senate advanced a separate, but similar, resolution in a procedural vote \u200con May 19 as a handful of Republicans broke with party leadership to vote with almost every Democrat.<\/div><div>This is a look at the U.S. war powers law and what might happen next.<\/div><h2>WHAT IS THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION?<\/h2><div>Congress passed the War Powers Resolution<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span>, also known as the War Powers Act, in 1973 as a check on presidential power in response to the \u200bunpopular Vietnam War. The Act requires the president to inform Congress within 48 hours of hostilities and says military action begun without Congress&#8217; approval \u200bmust be terminated within 60 days, unless there is an emergency.<\/div><div>With Iran, the 60-day deadline was May 1, which Trump \u2060addressed by declaring that the hostilities had been &#8220;terminated&#8221; by a ceasefire, despite continuing attacks and a blockade of Iranian ports. Legal experts said that argument might \u200bnot survive judicial scrutiny.<\/div><div>The law also establishes procedures for Congress to vote on war powers resolutions to end hostilities not authorized by the legislature. These resolutions \u200bare privileged, meaning they can be brought up for votes even without the approval of House of Representatives and Senate leaders.<\/div><div>The Senate has considered seven resolutions and the House four resolutions related to the Iran conflict since U.S. and Israeli forces started bombing more than 100 days ago.<\/div><div>HOW MANY HURDLES DO THE RESOLUTIONS FACE?\nBoth resolutions face significant hurdles.<\/div><div>The Senate measure \u200bhas survived only a procedural vote and has not passed the full chamber. Even if it is passed, to go into effect it must also \u200bclear the House, whose Republican leaders are unlikely to allow a vote.<\/div><div>And if it passed the House, to go into effect the measure would have to garner the two-thirds \u200cmajorities needed \u2060in both chambers to overcome an expected Trump veto.<\/div><div>The separate measure passed by the House this month would have to pass the Senate, where aides said they were waiting for the parliamentarian to decide whether it is &#8220;privileged.&#8221; If not, Republican Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota, who rarely breaks with Trump, is not expected to allow a vote.<\/div><h2>SO WHY BOTHER?<\/h2><div>The U.S. Constitution says only Congress, not the president, can authorize the use of military force, except for short-term \u200boperations or to counter an immediate threat.<\/div><div>Backers \u200bof the resolutions say bipartisan \u2060congressional approval sends an important signal that lawmakers are trying to take back their power to declare war and rein in Trump&#8217;s White House.<\/div><div>Opponents call the resolutions political posturing that emboldens U.S. enemies and may be unconstitutional because they \u200bimpinge on the president&#8217;s powers as commander in chief.<\/div><div>Experts said the votes are important.<\/div><div>&#8220;The war powers resolution that was \u200bpassed by the House \u2060sends a strong signal to the president that lawmakers across the aisle think that this war has gone on for too long and violates the war powers resolution as well as the Constitution,&#8221; said Katherine Yon Ebright, a war powers expert at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.<\/div><div>She said Trump appeared to \u2060take the \u200bvote seriously, noting that he had called it unpatriotic and said Republicans who sided with Democrats \u200bshould be ashamed of themselves.<\/div><div>The unpopular war could affect elections in November that will determine whether Trump&#8217;s Republicans retain control of Congress. Recent Reuters polling showed that 36% of Americans approved of U.S. strikes \u200bon Iran, and only 25% said the benefits of the strikes had been worth the costs.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Patricia Zengerle\" class=\"wp-image-764\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01a37831d0f3fb1e5cd1a8d2f7f3d1e5.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Patricia Zengerle<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1511\">Iranian World Cup players will be able to enter US the day before matches, DHS says<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1509\">Saudi jet fuel supply to Europe higher than before Hormuz closure, data shows<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1507\">Amazon issues record-setting Canadian dollar-denominated corporate bond deal<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since the war on Iran began on February 28, the Republican-led U.S. Congress has backed resolutions that could block Republican President Donald Trump from continuing hostilities, reflecting growing concern among members of his party about the three-month-long conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[80,17,7],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-judiciary","tag-public-policy","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Explainer: Congress has backed Iran war powers resolutions. 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