50 senators effectively voted to greenlight Trump’s criminal warmongering — allowing Vice President J.D. Vance to deliver a tie-breaking vote that halted a bipartisan war powers resolution (WPR) in its tracks.
It’s already alarmingly clear this failure has only emboldened a reckless and lawless White House. Today, as Trump threatens Mexico, Greenland, and more countries across the hemisphere, the Senate’s failure to put up roadblocks on his path toward endless wars is a shameful dereliction of duty.
This won’t be the last opportunity for the Senate to assert authority on matters of war and peace, and just one vote would have changed the outcome of this WPR. If we want to win the next vote, Senators need to hear from constituents like you who disagree with their cowardly votes.