Trump Criticizes Congress For Passing War Powers Bill, Calls It ‘Meaningless’

07:34 24.6.2026

US President Donald Trump has criticized Congress for passing on June 23 the largely symbolic “War Powers” bill, which was designed to end the Iran war.

In an angry social media post, Trump called it “poorly timed and meaningless.”

The bill, which was first passed by the House of Representatives, would require the president to withdraw US forces from a conflict with Iran unless Congress specifically authorizes this action.

Fifty senators, including four Republicans, voted in favor against 48 who opposed.

“These Senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other, because I always get it done!” Trump complained on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Right at a time when Iran is “willing to give us anything” and “respecting the hell out of the United States” and himself, he wrote, “the U.S. Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War Powers Act Vote, telling the Number One Sponser of Terror in the World that the United States doesn’t like what I am doing to them, and I must stop.”

The resolution will not be presented to Trump for signature, and therefore, in terms of legal force, it is a matter of debate and is largely symbolic.

Over the past months, Democratic senators have repeatedly put bills to a vote to stop the war, but each time they have failed due to Republican opposition.

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