President Donald Trump salutes as a U.S. Army transportation team transports a flag-draped transfer case containing Sergeant’s remains. Declan J. Coady at Dover Air Force Base March 7, 2026, Delaware. Six soldiers from the 103rd Sustainment Command were killed by an Iranian drone strike in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, on March 1. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Wednesday to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran and seek congressional approval for further military action in the country.
The 215-208 The vote, in which four Republicans joined all Democrats in voting to approve the resolution, is the strongest rebuke yet of Trump’s handling of the months-long war that has left more than a dozen military troops dead, thousands of Iranian civilians dead and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz disrupting global fertilizer and oil supply chains.
Republican Reps. Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Thomas Massie of Kentucky voted in favor.
The war powers resolution It nearly reached the House last month but failed in a 212-212 tie. The measure is a tool of Congress to limit the president’s ability to initiate or escalate military action.
Several similar efforts in the Senate have failed. However, after Senator Bill Cassidy’s Republican primary defeat, the Louisianan aligned himself with the Democrats and several Republican senators vote to advance the measure. A vote on final passage of the Senate measure is not scheduled.
Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sponsored the resolution in that chamber.
Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib has war powers of her own resolution That would force the president to withdraw troops from Lebanon. Israel launched an attack on this country using weapons and funds from the United States.
The passage of the resolution in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives was the latest sign of growing disunity among congressional Republicans against Trump.
Senate Republicans pushed back against Trump’s efforts to create a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay people who believe they were wrongfully prosecuted by the Justice Department, including those convicted and later pardoned by the president in the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The Trump administration backed away from the fund after disputes over it halted work on a bill to fund immigration and deportation activities for the remainder of the president’s second term.
