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Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) address a press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 25, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo by Emil Nicolai Helms\/Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats may have enough votes to pass a war powers resolution before the two-week recess, but party leaders have still not committed to doing so, even as the president appears ready for a ground invasion.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Prager<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mar 26, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backlash is continuing to grow after US House<\/a> Democratic leaders made the decision<\/a> to push off a war powers vote on President Donald Trump\u2019s Iran war for more than two weeks, even though they may have the votes to pass it immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Trump appearing poised<\/a> to make the deathly unpopular decision to deploy ground troops into Iran within days, momentum around an act to restrict his warmaking capabilities only continues to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Progressives Warn Democrats: Vote for Iran War Powers Resolution or Face Primary Challenge<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Pressure Builds on US Lawmakers to Support Iran War Powers Resolution<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most of the Democrats who killed the last war powers resolution are now reportedly on board. So is Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who emerged from a closed-door House Armed Services Committee briefing on Wednesday saying she was \u201ceven more\u201d opposed<\/a> to boots on the ground than when she entered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite having introduced the resolution himself, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, appeared to get cold feet about bringing it to the floor for a vote before next week\u2019s recess, a move which was met with anger and confusion from progressive critics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for Democrats on the committee told Common Dreams on Wednesday that Meeks was very much committed to passing a bill to \u201chold President Trump accountable for his reckless war of choice,\u201d but that one could not be pursued until April 13, after the recess, because some of the necessary \u201cyes\u201d votes had left Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drop Site News co-founder Ryan Grim described this as a \u201cpathetic\u201d excuse. \u201cAs Trump threatens a ground invasion, Democratic members of Congress are saying they won\u2019t do the one thing they are elected to do: Show up and vote,\u201d he wrote<\/a> on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Grim reported<\/a> on Thursday that Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) had since returned to town. The only Democrat not currently in DC, he said, was Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), who said on Wednesday that his wife was undergoing a routine surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios reported<\/a> on Thursday afternoon that Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) is also absent due to the recent death of his father, and Rep. Jared Golden (Maine<\/a>), one of the Democrats who opposed the last war powers vote, was still wavering as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even with some absences,\u00a0Republicans<\/a>\u00a0are also not at full strength.\u00a0Assuming<\/a>\u00a0that Republican Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Warren Davidson (Ohio) plan to vote yes, as they did in February, there may still be enough votes for the resolution to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is pretty amazing.

Rep. Greg Meeks to our Hill reporter Lily Franks on the War Powers resolution: "You go and talk to some Republicans, and come back and tell me where they are."

She notes that Massie, Warren Davidson, and Mace appear to be on board. "Go find out. Go find\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/fEOk2CrbHp<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/nq3SB70ShG<\/a><\/p>— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) March 26, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>