After Congress, the US Senate votes unanimously to repeal the Iraq War Authorization.
After Congress, the US Senate votes unanimously to repeal the Iraq War Authorization.
2025/10/10
The US Senate voted unanimously to revoke two authorizations that gave the green light for the first Gulf War in 1991 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The vote came after the U.S. House of Representatives voted last month to repeal the resolution, returning war powers to Congress.
The Senate passed an amendment to repeal the resolution, introduced by Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine and Indiana Republican Senator Todd Young, as part of the annual defense authorization bill that passed the Senate late Thursday.
“This is how war ends, not with a bang, but with a thud,” Kaine said after the vote, which took only seconds without debate or objections.
“Those wars changed America forever, and they changed the Middle East as well,” he added, according to the Associated Press.
This returns war powers to Congress, two decades after those powers were delegated to the White House.
Supporters of the resolution in both the House and Senate said rescinding the authorization is a crucial step to prevent future abuse and to affirm that Iraq is now a strategic partner of the United States.
The House of Representatives added a similar amendment to its version of the defense bill last September, meaning the repeal is likely to be included in the final version of the bill after the two chambers consolidate the versions.
Both bills also included a repeal of the 1991 authorization that authorized the U.S.-led Gulf War.
Will Trump support the resolution?
The Associated Press reported that while Congress appears poised to pass the repeal resolution, it remains unclear whether President Donald Trump will support it.
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