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Conservative Democrat Sen. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania) has cast the deciding vote to defeat yet another Senate war powers resolution aimed at reining in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, just hours after the House passed a provision to do so.<\/p>\n

The resolution, introduced by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), failed to advance in a 47 to 49 vote on Thursday. The resolution the U.S. to withdraw from hostilities against Iran until the action was authorized by Congress. This is the 12th attempt in the Senate to pass such legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe day after starting the Iran war, Trump said it would last \u2018four to five weeks.\u2019 It\u2019s now been 146 days,\u201d said Van Hollen. \u201cThousands of civilians have been killed. Prices are spiking again. We must end this war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fetterman, who has centered his brand around being vehemently pro-Israel, was the only Democrat to vote \u201cno.\u201d If he had voted \u201cyes,\u201d the vote would have ended in a tie.<\/p>\n

Last week, Fetterman said that he would leave the Democratic Party if it moved to \u201cofficially become the anti-Israel party.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats, we\u2019ve always \u2014 should support Israel. That\u2019s our special ally, you know?\u201d he said. Israel, which has been pushing for war with Iran for decades, is currently sitting out as the U.S. continues bombing the country, with one Israeli government official saying that this arrangement is \u201cbest\u201d for them.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, one Republican, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), broke with the party in voting to advance the resolution. Four other Republicans did not vote: Senators Katie Britt (Alabama), Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Ron Paul (Kentucky). <\/p>\n

During the ceasefire in June, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Collins, Paul, and Murkowski all voted to advance a resolution to stop the war. This caused the Senate to pass the war powers legislation for the first time during the current war, in a 50 to 48 vote.<\/p>\n

However, the White House was livid over the vote. President Donald Trump berated the Republicans who voted for the legislation, calling them \u201closers\u201d and singling out Cassidy as a \u201clunatic.\u201d <\/p>\n

In a stunning reversal, the Senate then voted against the legislation the next day, sinking the measure 47 to 50. Cassidy, who had previously protested the lack of briefings to Congress on the war, flipped his vote after being chewed out by Trump. Paul switched his vote to \u201cpresent,\u201d saying that the \u201chostilities seem to be over.\u201d Trump then thanked Paul and Cassidy for switching their votes in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s vote came just hours after the House voted to pass its own war powers resolution, 214 to 208. The resolution garnered support from 210 Democrats and four Republicans.<\/p>\n

However, just the day before, the House also passed a bill with $73 billion in supplemental funding for the Pentagon that\u2019s expected to go toward the war efforts. The legislation passed 216 to 214 in a largely party line vote, with two Republicans \u2014 Representatives Warren Davidson (Ohio) and Thomas Massie (Kentucky) \u2014 voting \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

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