00:26The United States Senate
00:28has passed a closely contested
00:30War Powers Resolution
00:31aimed at restricting President
00:34Donald Trump's authority
00:35over ongoing military operations
00:38against Iran.
00:39The vote ended 50-48,
00:41with four Republicans breaking ranks
00:44to join Democrats in supporting
00:46the measure. The resolution
00:48directs that U.S. forces
00:49engaged in hostilities against Iran
00:52must be withdrawn
00:53unless Congress explicitly
00:55authorizes continued military
00:57action. The move marks
01:00a rare bipartisan split
01:01and a significant assertion
01:04of congressional power
01:05under the War Powers Act of
01:071973, which was designed
01:09to limit unilateral
01:11presidential military action
01:13without legislative approval.
01:15However, the political reaction
01:18from President Trump was
01:19immediate and sharp.
01:21Trump dismissed the resolution
01:23as a meaningless vote and lashed
01:25out at its supporters, calling them
01:27four Republican losers
01:29and Democrats.
01:31He further defended
01:32his administration's position
01:33on the conflict, claiming that
01:35the U.S. holds a strong
01:37strategic advantage, saying,
01:39I have Iran on the ropes,
01:41ready to go down for the fall.
01:43Despite the Senate's decision,
01:45the resolution is largely viewed
01:47as symbolic and non-binding
01:49in practice, as it does not require
01:52presidential approval and is expected
01:54to face resistance from the White House.
01:56The development now sets up
01:58a growing political confrontation
02:00between Congress and the President
02:02over war powers, even as the U.S.-Iran conflict
02:06continues to remain tense
02:08and unresolved.
02:10Trump has turned the art of the deal
02:12into the art of the blunder.
02:14Donald Trump, Marco Rubio,
02:16and J.D. Vance, are too afraid
02:18to come in front of the American people
02:20and the whole Senate
02:21to defend their war
02:22and so-called understanding.
02:26So now Trump will talk
02:27only to Senate Republicans
02:29behind closed doors.
02:32Senate Republicans need
02:33to grill Donald Trump
02:35for answers,
02:36for answers
02:39on where negotiations stand
02:41when he meets with them
02:42at the Capitol tomorrow.
02:46Trump and Vance
02:47haven't even finished
02:48their phony victory lap
02:51yesterday when Iran announced
02:53that it did not make any commitments
02:55to allow nuclear inspections.
02:58No commitments
02:59to allow nuclear inspections,
03:01even though that was supposed to be
03:03one of the mainstays
03:04of what Trump was pursuing.
03:07Trump also claimed
03:08that the Strait of Hormuz
03:09is fully open,
03:10even though shipping
03:12through the waterway
03:13remains a small fraction
03:14of what it was before the war.
03:16And more than a week
03:17after announcing side deals
03:19and so-called understandings
03:20with Iran,
03:21the administration
03:22still hasn't briefed Congress
03:24or the American people
03:25on what's actually
03:26been agreed to.
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