{"id":69376,"date":"2026-03-18T20:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/senate-votes-down-measure-aiming-to-limit-trumps-war-powers-by-53-47-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:01:11","slug":"senate-votes-down-measure-aiming-to-limit-trumps-war-powers-by-53-47-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/senate-votes-down-measure-aiming-to-limit-trumps-war-powers-by-53-47-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes down measure aiming to limit Trump\u2019s war powers by 53-47 vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans block resolution to take up the measure, which Democrats vow to bring up \u2018again and again and again\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that aimed to reign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s power to wage war against Iran without congressional authorization.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-47 vote against taking up the measure fell almost completely along party lines, with no movement from earlier this month when Republicans blocked Democrats\u2019 bid to limit Trump\u2019s war-making power in the days after the joint US-Israeli strikes, known as Operation Epic Fury, began across Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/senate-trump-war-powers-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans block resolution to take up the measure, which Democrats vow to bring up \u2018again and again and again\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that aimed to reign in Donald Trump\u2019s power to wage war against Iran without &#8230; <a title=\"Senate votes down measure aiming to limit Trump\u2019s war powers by 53-47 vote\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/senate-votes-down-measure-aiming-to-limit-trumps-war-powers-by-53-47-vote\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate votes down measure aiming to limit Trump\u2019s war powers by 53-47 vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}