President Donald Trump suffered a rare defeat in the House of Representatives on Wednesday after Democrats joined by a handful of Republicans voted to sharply curb his war powers in Iran. Lawmakers voted 215-208 to withdraw troops from using military force against Iran absent congressional authorization. All Democrats present voted for the measure to effectively halt the U.S.military campaign against Iran.
Meanwhile, Reps.Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Warren Davison, R-Ohio, Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Tom Barrett, R-Mich., were the lone Republicans to buck the president and support the war powers resolution.Massie, an ardent foe of the president who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, and Davidson, a libertarian-aligned lawmaker have criticized the war in Iran.
Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick and Barrett are both facing potentially difficult re-election bids in swing districts.Thousands gathered at Revolution Square in Tehran on May 30, 2026, to protest attacks by the U.S.and Israel on Iran, carrying Iranian flags and posters of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
(Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu)SWING-DISTRICT REPUBLICAN BREAKS WITH TRUMP, PUSHES LIMITS ON IRAN WARA majority of Republicans, however, sided with the president as Democrats sought to put them on the record."It’s just a total BS vote.I think there’s no Democrat, no Republican that can tell you what forces they would want pulled from Iran," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., told Fox News.
"They just want a stupid political vote, which is what this is."The successful war powers vote is largely a symbolic loss for Trump given an expected presidential veto and the lack of a veto-proof majority.Even if Congress did cobble together a supermajority to force the president’s hand, it’s unclear whether Trump would ultimately withdraw U.S.forces.Trump administration officials have repeatedly argued the 1973 War Powers Resolution requiring congressional oversight of military action ...