The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed a resolution to block Donald Trump from carrying out more strikes on Iran without congressional approval, in lawmakers’ first major rebuke of the US president’s war in the Middle East.
The House of Representatives voted 215-208 on Wednesday in support of a war powers resolution, with four Republican lawmakers siding with all of the Democrats in an attempt to rein in the president’s powers.
The vote will be seen as a significant if symbolic blow to Trump at a time of heightened tensions over the Iran war, which is now in its fourth month. Several previous attempts by Democrats in both the House and Senate to force congressional oversight of the war failed.
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