{"id":61247,"date":"2026-04-23T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=61247"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:40:02","slug":"treasonous-senators-defeat-democrats-5th-attempt-to-limit-trumps-war-powers-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=61247","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Treasonous Senators defeat Democrats&#8217; 5th attempt to limit Trump&#8217;s war powers in Iran<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-9.38.47-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-9.38.47-AM.png 597w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-9.38.47-AM-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington \u2014\u00a0<\/em>The Senate rejected another attempt to rein in President Trump&#8217;s ability to use further military force against Iran on Wednesday, marking Democrats&#8217; fifth effort to do so since the war began eight weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>In a 46 to 51 vote, a motion to discharge the measure from committee failed. Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted with Republicans against it,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>while GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voted with Democrats in favor.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-joint-resolution\/114\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resolution<\/a>\u00a0would have directed the president to &#8220;remove the United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Iran, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-trump-war-powers-iran\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-trump-war-powers-iran\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61285,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61247\/revisions\/61285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}