Iran war sparks GOP fight over Trump’s military power
Four Republicans crossed party lines in an Iran war powers vote as Congress moved to curb Trump’s military authority, while ICE force findings raised the domestic stakes.
Four Republicans crossed party lines in a Senate vote on an Iran war powers resolution, exposing fresh fractures over Donald Trump’s military authority as Congress weighed whether the White House could widen the conflict without lawmakers. Congress.gov includes multiple Iran-related measures in the 119th Congress, including H.Con.Res.38, H.Con.Res.86, H.Res.105 and H.Res.1099.
U.S.-Iran relations have been largely antagonistic since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, with tensions spiking since 2023. In a May 22, 2025 update, the Congressional Research Service said Iran had suffered significant military and strategic setbacks in 2024 and that U.S. and Iranian diplomats were engaged in the first diplomatic talks in years over Iran’s nuclear program.
Democrats and a few Republicans have pressed to curb Trump’s unilateral military power in Iran, while H.Con.Res.38 would direct the president, under the War Powers Resolution, to remove U.S. armed forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and H.Con.Res.86 would direct the president to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran.
ProPublica identified nearly 50 documented instances of immigration agents breaking vehicle windows during the second Trump administration, compared with eight in the previous decade. Internal emails showed 67 ICE use-of-force incidents were reported between Jan. 19 and March 20, 2025, and that the Department of Homeland Security had known for nearly a year that ICE violence was rising.
ICE arrests topped 100,000 in 2025. The Deportation Data Project said deportations from within the United States increased by a factor of 4.6 in the first nine months of Trump’s second term and by a factor of five over the first year, and a Physicians for Human Rights and University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center report documented 412 uses of force against protesters over one year.
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