House votes for a third time to end the Iran war as conflict drags on
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. For a third time, the US House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt president Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval. The roll call late Tuesday, 220-204, was similar to earlier efforts this summer, with a few more Republicans joining all Democrats voting to bring an end to the conflict. None of the resolutions have made it to the president’s desk, where Trump would almost certainly veto the measure, AP reported. “Remember when Donald Trump said that this war would last just a few weeks?” said Democratic representative Seth Moulton, who served as a marine during the Iraq war and pushed the resolution forward. He said it’s time for Congress to “actually ask tough questions, as the Constitution directs us to do, rather than be subservient to another warmongering administration.” Republican Brian Mast of Florida, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, questioned which military resources Democrats would want to remove from the region where he said Iran remains a threat. Mast said Trump is against “forever wars, and that is what he is ending” – the decades of hostilities from Iran. “They are a continuous ongoing threat to the United States,” Mast said. “Enough is enough.” The action is likely the last House vote on the Iran war ahead of the midterm elections, where the conflict overseas is playing a substantial role in the political campaigns. In other developments: As part of a $2.8bn package of military aid, the Trump administration plans to send Israel a type of one-ton bombs that were withheld by the Biden administration over concerns that they were being used to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Donald Trump “threw a tantrum” when he heard that Democratic congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a trustee of the Kennedy Center whose lawsuit forced Trump’s name to be removed from the facade of the memorial, had again prevailed in court. A televised Michigan Senate debate in Detroit on Tuesday was distinctly one-sided because Democratic nominee Dr Abdul El-Sayed showed up while his Republican opponent Mike Rogers chose not to attend. Todd Blanche, US attorney general alerted reporters at White House about what he called “a big development” related to federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens. This was set up by Ryan Raybould, US attorney for Northern District of Texas. When it came though Raybould’s announcement didn’t quite match expectations; his office charged six lawful permanent residents and one undocumented immigrant for voting in federal elections over past eight years. Share Key eventsUS to bar some South Africans over claims of anti-white discrimination
Rachel Savage The US has announced visa restrictions on some South Africans as Donald Trump’s administration continues claiming that South Africa’s government racially discriminates against white minority Afrikaners. The announcement did not specify individuals who were barred from entering US. Trump has spent his second term falsely claiming there is a “white genocide” in South Africa and railing against its affirmative action policies. Since start last year US has cut aid to South Africa barred it from this year’s G20 summit in Miami and set up refugee program for Afrikaners and other South African racial minorities. Meanwhile Trump administration has been dismantling refugee and asylum programs for people fleeing war and persecution. “The South African people are being failed by government that is destroying its economy through an obsessive pursuit of racial grievance against Afrikaner minority,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated in post on X. “South African government consistently failed adequately address rural crime violent dehumanising rhetoric race-based discriminatory policies against Afrikaners other minority populations.”</ppThe U S v i s ‘ ‘. D i c t i o n. D e f i n e d = p m u s t A r g u m e n t ` = { } ; R u b i o A d d e d.Share “The U S v i s ‘ ‘. D i c t I o n P r o g r e s s I o n T h e H O R L E N G T H C H A N G E W A R D F I N D E P T ` = { } ; ” T h r o w “o u t” & b = ;”);= ( ) (-‘ + # ) _+ # _(“#”#}((##)“/””””””'{“W’#’}”}#() ( * ((`*”) ))`# } “#(“)))’+( ‘&[O&Q]”;=’m=H”}’)%&.’;”][(#)[/”%({[“”””””#”‘/;”{“,”‘:$}’)”))'”&]]”‘(%/.%'”.”%{./}))(#)+}}$’$][[]’-())–.”)##)&@”..” ShareSOMEHEADING>
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