Trump Faces Bipartisan War Powers Rebuke as Iran Conflict Drags On
September 16, 2026
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5 min readOn July 19, 2025, the House of Representatives voted 220-204 to pass a War Powers Resolution rebuking Donald Trump’s war in Iran—the third such resolution to pass the chamber. Seven Republicans joined Democrats in the vote. The resolution declares that the conflict, now nearly 200 days old, is unauthorized by Congress and must end. The episode walks through the cascade of military, economic, and strategic consequences that have followed the administration’s decision to escalate against Iran, drawing on a Pentagon Inspector General report, a Congressional Budget Office analysis, and an interview with Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a former Navy aviator and astronaut.
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- 1 Trump Faces Bipartisan War Powers Rebuke as Iran Conflict Drags On
- 2 The MeidasTouch Podcast
- 3 (02:30) **House Passes War Powers Resolution to Rebuke Trump's Iran War** - The House votes 220-204 to pass another War Powers Resolution, with seven Republicans crossing party lines, declaring Trump's war unauthorized.
- 4 (03:21) **Three New Reports Reveal the War's Catastrophic Scale** - The host introduces recent reports from the Congressional Budget Office, the Pentagon's Inspector General, and the Wall Street Journal that detail the war's true costs.
- 5 (04:39) **Half a Billion Dollars in Interceptors Expended in a Single Day** - The Wall Street Journal reports the US burned through 70 or more Patriot and THAAD interceptors in one day blunting an Iranian attack on Jordan.
- 6 (08:32) **Congressional Budget Office Report: Two-Thirds of US Interceptors May Be Gone** - A CBO report requested by Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle reveals the US has likely used between one-half and two-thirds of its missile defense interceptors in the Iran war.
- 7 (11:34) **Iran's Foreign Minister Taunts the Pentagon with Its Own Report** - Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi posts the Pentagon Inspector General's findings on social media, calling the US claim that Iran is "defenseless" a fiction.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the House passing a War Powers resolution rebuking Donald Trump, as new reports raise questions about the war and U.S. munitions. Meiselas also shares his recent interview with Senator Mark Kelly.
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