{"id":2604665,"date":"2026-05-19T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-advances-iran-war-powers-bill-as-cassidy-flips-after-primary-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:38:27","slug":"senate-advances-iran-war-powers-bill-as-cassidy-flips-after-primary-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-advances-iran-war-powers-bill-as-cassidy-flips-after-primary-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate advances Iran war powers bill as Cassidy flips after primary loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-advances-iran-war-powers-bill-as-cassidy-flips-after-primary-loss%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2604665&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Senate moved forward with an Iran war powers bill designed to compel an end to the war, following Sen. Bill Cassidy\u2019s switch in support after losing his primary. The measure had <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >earlier failed due<\/a> to insufficient Republican backing, with Cassidy\u2019s defection now providing the decisive votes.<\/p>\n<p>Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski had already supported the resolution, bringing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-bill-hagerty-blasts-the-medias-hegseth-smear-campaign\/\" title=\"Sen. ... Hagerty Blasts The Media&#039;s Hegseth Smear Campaign\">procedural vote tally<\/a> to 50-47. While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maga-takes-victory-lap-after-dan-crenshaw-loses-primary-in-texas\/\" title=\"MAGA takes victory lap after Dan Crenshaw loses ... in Texas\">vote advances<\/a> the effort, a seperate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/becerras-wife-sits-on-board-of-nonprofit-that-pushed-his-nomination\/\" title=\"Becerra\u2019s Wife Sits on Board of Nonprofit That Pushed His Nomination\">full vote<\/a> is expected later.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"8765\">Senate<\/a> advanced an Iran war powers bill, aiming to force an end to the war with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iran<\/a>, after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) flipped his vote fresh off a resounding <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4571020\/cassidy-loses-reelection-campaign\/\">primary loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bill had previously been shot down because of a lack of Republican support. Cassidy is the key defection, as he previously withheld voting in favor of a measure that\u2019s sure to anger Trump. 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Rand Paul (R-KY), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) had previously voted in favor of the resolution, putting the final tally at 50-47.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was procedural, but a full vote will be held at a later date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate advances Iran war powers bill after Cassidy flips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2604668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26112039190455.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[3823,3740,57516],"class_list":["post-2604665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-iran","tag-senate","tag-war-powers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26112039190455.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604670,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604665\/revisions\/2604670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}