{"id":12140,"date":"2026-04-16T01:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12140"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:34:40","slug":"130295546-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12140","title":{"rendered":"US Senate Republicans reject effort to halt Trump&#8217;s Iran war &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130295731,imgsize-617178,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/donald-trump.jpg\" alt=\"US Senate Republicans reject effort to halt Trump's Iran war\" title=\"Donald Trump \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More than three dozen Democrats supported a resolution introduced in the US Senate by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bernie-sanders\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> to block arms sales to Israel.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>The move signals growing unease within the party over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid the ongoing war with Iran. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The Senate voted on two separate resolutions seeking to halt the sale of bulldozers and bombs to Israel.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Both measures were opposed by all Republicans and ultimately rejected, with votes of 40-59 and 36-63, the Associated Press reported. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Sanders, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, has repeatedly forced votes on the issue to pressure lawmakers from both parties.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>After the vote, he said, \u201cIt\u2019s clear that Democrats are beginning to listen to the average American who is sick and tired of spending billions of dollars to support Netanyahu\u2019s horrific wars when people in this country can\u2019t afford housing or health care.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Among those backing the resolutions was Mark Kelly, who had earlier opposed some of Sanders\u2019 previous attempts.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Explaining his decision, Kelly said the \u201creckless decisions\u201d of Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump influenced his vote. He cited the expansion of the conflict into Lebanon and continued violence against Palestinians as factors that have \u201cundermined the path forward for peace.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>\u201cUnder Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s government, we\u2019ve seen an expanded war in Lebanon that is putting innocent Lebanese civilians at risk, and ongoing violence against Palestinians and their homes being demolished in the West Bank. All of this has undermined the path forward for peace, Kelly said.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>However, several prominent Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, voted against the resolutions. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>On the same day, Democrats also supported a separate resolution to halt US involvement in the Iran conflict, though that measure was narrowly rejected 47-52. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Senator Chris Coons, who voted against Sanders\u2019 Israel resolutions but backed ending the Iran war, said his decisions should not be seen as either endorsing Netanyahu\u2019s actions or abandoning Israel.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>Republicans strongly opposed the measures, warning of broader geopolitical consequences. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch argued that blocking arms sales could embolden Iran and signalled that the United States is willing to leave Israel vulnerable. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/>\u201cThey will not help the United States of America,\u201d Risch said ahead of the vote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/us-senate-republicans-reject-effort-to-halt-trumps-iran-war\/articleshow\/130295546.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three dozen Democrats supported a resolution introduced in the US Senate by Bernie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29476,29474,29475,29477,29478],"class_list":["post-12140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arms-sales-halt-to-israel","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-dems-vote-against-arms-sales-to-israel","tag-mark-kelly","tag-netanyahu-war-with-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}