With the House Eyeing Another Iran WPR Vote, Pro-Israel Democrats Explore Routes to Delay [View all]

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Anti-war advocates have openly speculated about whether the Democratic establishment would deliberately allow the war to drag on to benefit the party politically in the 2026 midterm elections.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/house-iran-wpr-gottheimer-meeks


Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) questions CIA Director John Ratcliffe during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 19, 2026.

Democrats in the House are preparing to force a vote on another War Powers Resolution as early as next Wednesday. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that, this time, he is optimistic the effort to cease American hostilities in Iran will win the votes of the Democratic holdouts on the Massie-Khanna effort earlier this month.

Jeffries was referring to Democrats who voted against the WPR introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY), which failed 212-219 in a March 5 vote on the House floor, favoring instead a proposal by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ). The text of Gottheimer’s resolution—which provided a watered-down alternative when the Khanna-Massie WPR was gaining momentum, but did not end up going to the floor—sets a 30-day maximum on hostilities from the day the bill was filed.

The bill was designed to give Trump the leeway to continue bombing without congressional approval for 30 days. But if reintroduced and passed now, it would force Trump’s war efforts to come to a close by March 30, putting the cosponsors who voted against the Khanna-Massie WPR in a position where they may be forced to vote to effectively end the war immediately.

Gottheimer told Drop Site that he’s been communicating and collaborating with Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), who has introduced a War Powers Resolution of his own that foreign policy experts claim is ripe to call for a vote while Gottheimer’s is still ripening. “Have you talked to Meeks? Get him,” Gottheimer told Drop Site. “Ask Meeks. It’s relevant to what I’m doing too, but I want to defer to him.”

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