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Closed-door outburst turns into victory for Trump’s Iran negotiations 69%
By Alex Miller31%
6/25/2026, 3:02:33 AM
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An explosive meeting in the Senate turned into a win for President Donald Trump and his administration as key Republicans flipped on another bid to handcuff the administration’s authorities in Iran.
In its final act before leaving Washington, D.C., for an over two-week break, the Senate rejected Democrats’ attempt to rein in Trump’s war powers in Iran as talks continue between Iran and the U.S. to hammer out a long-term peace deal.
It was the same war powers resolution from Sen.
Tim Kaine, D-Va., that passed over a month ago and stunned Republicans in the upper chamber.
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What seemed like a predetermined outcome just hours after Trump and Sen.
Bill Cassidy, R-La., sparred over the Iran war, and the administration's lack of forthcomingness with lawmakers, during a closed-door meeting to discuss the president's marquee voter ID and citizenship verification legislation turned into a surprise late night win.
Trump argued to the GOP that the previous war powers resolution, which passed on Tuesday thanks in part to a pair of Republicans being absent, hurt the administration's negotiating position with the Iranians.
Meetings with key holdouts at the White House helped change the minds of Cassidy and Sen.
Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has routinely voted with Democrats on every war powers resolution brought forward, and provided the administration with a win as they work toward a deal beyond the 60-day memorandum of understanding with Iran.
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"I want to thank Vice President [JD] Vance and Special Envoy [Steve] Witkoff for the thorough briefing this afternoon on Iran," Cassidy said on X.
"I appreciate the quick invitation to the White House to address many of my concerns."
And Paul, who voted present, noted that his "opinion on the debate over war and executive power has not changed and I have voted that way several times."
"But since hostilities seem to be over and the President asked me to give consideration to his negotiating position, I will do so," Paul said on X.
"My vote of present is a way to give the President more space and leverage to negotiate a lasting peace."
Sen.
Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who has been at the forefront among Democrats in pushing war powers resolutions in the upper chamber, acknowledged that "this is a different moment," but cautioned that the ceasefire appeared to be "precarious right now."
When asked if he believed Trump's case to Republicans that the successful war powers vote just a day before was hurting the administration's leverage, Murphy said, "The Iranians don't — you know, all they have to do is read a poll and find out that people in this country don't support the war.
They didn't support the war."
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Still, it marked a key win for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and the Senate GOP's whip operation, led by Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., to flip the skeptics into backers of the administration’s long game in Iran after several contentious weeks in the Senate spurred by Trump's last-minute decisions that either derailed or torpedoed several of his key agenda items.
Thune and Barrasso, accompanied by Sens.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, huddled in the GOP leader's office as the vote wound down late Wednesday to call Trump, and share the news of the vote.
"Wow!
The Senate just changed its vote on Iran from 50-48 against, to 50-47 for," Trump said on Truth Social.
"Rand Paul and Bill Cassidy changed.
Thank you to Leader John Thune, Lindsey Graham, Bernie Moreno, and all.
This vote puts Iran on notice!"
It also comes at a time when speculation has swirled over the nature of Thune and Trump's relationship as the president, accompanied by chatter online, have ramped up the pressure to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.
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Moreno made the case that the questions over their relationship, and Thune's position as leader, was just noise, and that "there's not a single solitary Senator running for office that says leader Thune should be replaced, not one, even non-incumbents."
"What today showed is that President Trump has a kind of relationship with John Thune where he says, ‘Hey, let me talk to the guys,’ understand the situation," Moreno said.
"As much as Cassidy and Trump got into it, it was because they're both passionate, they're both smart people."
"And now, we've most importantly sent the Iranians a message that President Trump has the full backing of the Congress, and that was an incredibly important day," he continued.
"That's a huge victory for us."
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