The House on Tuesday evening, Sept. 15, 2026, voted 220-204 to pass a war-powers resolution directing President Trump to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran — the chamber’s third such rebuke of the administration’s Iran campaign, CBS News reported. Seven Republicans broke with the president on the tally.

The measure, H. Con. Res. 93, introduced by Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, directs the president “to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran,” Ranking Member Gregory Meeks said during floor debate. Concurrent resolutions express the sense of Congress; they are not signed by the president and do not themselves appropriate funds.

Third House vote — Senate path unclear

Both chambers adopted a related resolution in June. A July House measure has seen no Senate action, CBS News reported, and it remains unclear whether the Senate will take up Tuesday’s resolution in the last two scheduled weeks of session before the November elections. The White House has previously argued against the validity of earlier war-powers language on Iran.

Aug. 28 marked roughly six months since the war began around Feb. 28. The Pentagon has said Operation Epic Fury — the label for the initial strikes — ended in May, but U.S. and Iranian forces have continued to exchange fire, and a ceasefire meant to wind down the conflict collapsed in July. Trump last week predicted the war “will end immediately after the election,” CBS News reported.

Money, costs, and who decides war

Republicans are seeking up to about $73 billion in new war funding through reconciliation. A separate Congressional Budget Office analysis released Tuesday estimated roughly $2 billion to $3 billion per month while fighting continues, and about $38 billion in direct costs from Feb. 28 through Aug. 1 — figures we covered earlier in more detail.

“This Congress has not authorized a war with Iran,” Meeks said, framing the vote as a constitutional question: whether the power to decide when the United States goes to war still belongs to Congress. Whatever the Senate does next, Tuesday’s House tally again put that clash — legislature versus executive war-making — on the record.

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