{"id":87,"date":"2026-05-22T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:45:07","slug":"house-gop-cancels-iran-war-powers-vote-for-second-day-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Day in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with <\/span><\/i><i><span>a donation<\/span><\/i><i><span> of any size.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=85\">8 House Democrats Join GOP in Vote to Defund Schools That Support Trans Youth<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After four US Senate Republicans on Tuesday helped Democrats advance a war powers resolution intended to halt President Donald Trump\u2019s illegal war on Iran, GOP leadership in the House of Representatives canceled a similar vote on Wednesday, and again on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive and Democratic Party leaders in the House were quick to call out Republican leadership, including Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), who Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Chair Greg Casar (D-Texas) said \u201chas cemented his legacy as the speaker who handed the most corrupt president ever complete control over the House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans can run from Trump\u2019s disastrous war, but they can\u2019t hide. Thousands are dead, and gas and grocery prices are up, and progressives will not stop demanding votes\u2026 until the war is actually ended,\u201d Casar pledged, as Americans prepared to spend an estimated extra $3.5 billion on gasoline over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>CPC Chair Emerita Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) similarly said on social media: \u201cRepublicans just called off the vote on a war powers resolution because they were afraid it would pass and Trump\u2019s war of choice in Iran would be ended. This is absolutely ridiculous, and a failure of leadership from the Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) also accused Republicans of refusing to hold a vote \u201cbecause they knew it would pass,\u201d adding: \u201cThe GOP doesn\u2019t care about your skyrocketing costs for gas, groceries, and everything else. They only care about appeasing Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Absences were the apparent issue for the House GOP on Thursday. Eight Republicans were not there for votes, according to <em>C-SPAN<\/em> Capitol Hill producer Craig Caplan, and retiring Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), who joined with nearly all Republicans to block a resolution last week, had made clear that he intended to support the measure this week.<\/p>\n<p>Cheered on by colleagues, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) took to the House floor to demand answers about the schedule: \u201cAre we not voting on it because the American people are sick and tired of this illegal war that is costing tens of billions of dollars? Gas prices are through the roof. People can\u2019t afford their groceries. Is that why you\u2019re pulling it? You guys don\u2019t have the guts or the balls to vote on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=83\">Corporations, Federal Agencies Are Using Seattle Police\u2019s Surveillance Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican Congressmen Tom Barrett (Mich.), and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), and Thomas Massie (Ky.) had broken ranks and joined Democrats for last week\u2019s vote. While Massie was absent on Thursday after a stinging primary loss earlier this week, \u201csome Republicans believed Fitzpatrick and Barrett would vote for the resolution again Thursday before they pulled it,\u201d Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick confirmed that, telling <em>Punchbowl News<\/em>\u2019 Briana Reilly: \u201cThey\u2019re claiming they have two more days to bring it. I was prepared to vote for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the cancellation, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) said that \u201cas tonight shows, the deck is stacked against pro-peace Americans: Even when a majority of Americans oppose a war, and a majority of Congress opposes a war, congressional leaders find ways to cancel a vote so that the war can continue!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cowardice makes a mockery of the democratic process \u2014 but it will not silence Americans who are in the right that oppose this catastrophic, illegal war,\u201d NIAC added. \u201cWe will keep up the momentum until we bring this disastrous and backfiring war to a close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erik Sperling, executive director of Just Foreign Policy, suggested Thursday that \u201cthe best thing\u201d for Trump and the GOP would be to lose a war powers vote, because then the president \u201cwould have cover to make a deal with Iran and let gas prices come down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation of the war powers vote was part of what Politico\u2019s Meredith Lee Hill called \u201ca BIG mess\u201d in the chamber \u201cas lawmakers want to leave for Memorial Day recess,\u201d given that \u201creconciliation 2.0 is already iced,\u201d and a \u201cGOP-led bill to create a women\u2019s museum is set to fail amid a GOP revolt.\u201d That vote was held, and failed as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=81\">Newly Released Footage Highlights ICE\u2019s Use of Facial Recognition Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cancellation comes just after four GOP senators joined Democrats to pass a Senate war powers resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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