President Donald Trump said the four Republican senators who crossed the aisle to support a War Powers resolution 'gave aid and comfort to Iran' and made his job 'more difficult.' He wrote on Truth Social that he will 'get the job done anyway.' The resolution, which passed 50-48, is non-binding.
President Donald Trump early Wednesday escalated his attack on Republican senators who voted with Democrats on a War Powers resolution aimed at limiting military action against Iran. Writing on Truth Social, Trump labeled the four defectors — whose names he did not specify but who were identified in earlier reports as Sens. Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Susan Collins, and Jerry Moran — as 'four Republican losers.' He charged that their vote 'gave aid and comfort' to Tehran and that they 'just made my job harder.'
Trump's statement, posted at 05:47 Jerusalem time, comes hours after the Senate adopted the non-binding resolution by a 50-48 margin late Tuesday. The measure calls on the president to end hostilities against Iran unless Congress grants explicit authorization. While the resolution carries no legal force, the bipartisan rebuke represents a political challenge to the administration's expansive use of military power.
As The Zioneer reported earlier Wednesday, the White House views the vote as an endorsement of inaction against Iran's nuclear program. Trump's overnight broadside mirrors his earlier pattern of attacking intra-party dissenters and framing congressional oversight as foreign interference. The president reiterated that he will 'complete the work, one way or another, because I always get the job done.'
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Source and signal
- Internal intake