Overview
- The Senate voted 49–50 on Thursday to defeat a motion to discharge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s war‑powers resolution, leaving the measure stalled in the Foreign Relations Committee.
- Gillibrand’s resolution would have directed withdrawal of U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities against Iran unless Congress issued a declaration of war.
- Three Republicans—Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul—joined Democrats to advance the measure on the floor while Sen. John Fetterman voted with Republicans to block it and Sen. Mitch McConnell was absent.
- U.S. Central Command reported that Iranian ballistic missiles were intercepted after an attempted strike and that U.S. forces responded with a “heavy wave of strikes” on dozens of Iranian targets.
- The Pentagon updated its casualty accounting to list 18 killed and more than 600 wounded and recategorized some post‑July 7 cases, prompting congressional concern about oversight, falling munitions stocks, and requests for supplemental defense funding.