US Iran Congress
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and other Democrats, from left, Rep. Gil Cisneros, D-Calif., Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., demand congressional approval for embarking on a war with Iran, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
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Senate Republicans have voted down an effort to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran. It demonstrated early GOP support for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy. In Senate debate Wednesday, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer implored fellow senators to ask themselves if they stand with Americans “exhausted with forever wars” or with a president and defense secretary set to “bumble us headfirst” into another one. Sen. John Barrasso is second in Senate Republican leadership and said Democrats would rather obstruct Trump than “obliterate Iran’s national nuclear program.”
It's the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines.
