Kaine’s push to check Trump’s Iran war powers fails in Senate vote

The batch of democracy in the Senate was closed to put a check on the powers of President Donald Trump and reaffirm the authority of war in the Senate by legislators in the upper room on Thursday.

Senator Tim Kane’s decision on the war forces, who would have been asking Congress to discuss and vote on whether the president could declare war, or Iran’s strike, in the Senate in a large partisan vote, with the exception of Senator John Vitirman, Davors, who was an Israeli lawyer who was supporting Trump’s strike on Islam. Powers in recent days.

Earlier this week, Virginia Democrat pledged to move forward in the decision despite the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran in the wake of the weekend strikes on the main nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic that the Green Congress did not give.

Senator Demi is progressing with the decision of the war authorities despite the ceasefire

Kane argued that the ceasefire gave his decision more credibility and breathing to discuss the role that Congress plays properly when it comes to licensing both war and attacks abroad.

He said before the vote on the Senate floor that it came to Washington to ensure that the country did not enter again to another “unnecessary” war, and he called the impulsion to agree to the powers of the war for the then President George W. Bush two decades ago to participate with Iraq.

“I think this week’s events have proven that the war is very large so that it cannot be disposed of to the decisions of any one,” said Kane.

“Not Constitutional”: Congress evokes the decision of the new war authorities to reject Trump’s strikes on Iran

The majority leader of the Senate John Thun speaks during a press conference in the wake of a lunch for the Republican Policy at the weekly Senate in the American Capitol on June 17, 2025, in Washington. (Getty Images)

In fact, his decision has become a pivotal point in the debate that broke out in the Capitol Hill since Israel began its bombing campaign against Iran: whether strikes such as those that were carried out during the midnight operation constitute a war that requires the approval of Congress, or if Trump’s decision under a constitutional authority as a leader.

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Republicans in the Senate have extensively argued that Trump was within his jurisdiction, while most Democrats in the Senate raised constitutional concerns about the president’s ability to carry out a strike without lawmakers.

Experts also argued that Trump was part of his executive authority to strike Iran.

The constitution divides the powers of war between Congress and the White House, giving legislators the only power to declare war, while the president acts as a major commander who directs the army.

After nearly two centuries, at the height of the Vietnam War, the war decision was born in 1973, which sought to determine these roles.

But the most important thing for the legislators is through the strength of the wallet, and the Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, who plays a major role in controlling the wallet strings as the Senate Defense Forces Sub-Committee had had a sharp message against Kane’s decision.

McConnell has used the cases in which Democratic presidents have used over the past three decades their authority to limited participation in Kosovo, Libya, Syria and Yemen, and they asked why the “isolationist” considered a strike on Iran to ride its nuclear program.

“I have not heard of repeated publications on the decisions of the war forces, they are seriously counted with these questions,” he said. “Until they do so, efforts such as this will remain absolute from the strategic and constitutional reality.”