{"id":7908,"date":"2026-04-09T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/live-updates-gop-rebuffs-dems-push-to-rein-in-trumps-war-with-iran-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:01:31","slug":"live-updates-gop-rebuffs-dems-push-to-rein-in-trumps-war-with-iran-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/live-updates-gop-rebuffs-dems-push-to-rein-in-trumps-war-with-iran-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: GOP rebuffs Dems' push to rein in Trump's war with Iran – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

BREAKING: Republicans block effort to halt Trump\u2019s war with Iran<\/a><\/span><\/use><\/svg><\/a>
President Donald Trump bashed NATO after a meeting with the alliance's secretary general at the White House.
<\/span>President Donald Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling out of NATO, a move that would require congressional backing.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> Getty Images<\/span>
House Democrats unsuccessfully attempted to pass a resolution today to halt Donald Trump\u2019s war with Iran \u2014 a response to the president\u2019s shocking threat two days earlier to\u00a0annihilate \u201ca whole civilization.\u201d<\/a>
House and Senate lawmakers are at the tail end of a two-week spring recess, but Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., and other Democrats returned to Washington for a routine \u201cpro forma\u201d session to try to pass the resolution by unanimous consent.
However, the Republican lawmaker presiding over the session, Chris Smith of New Jersey, gaveled out of the brief session without calling on Ivey. Democrats howled in protest, with some shouting \u201cShame!\u201d
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The price of oil rebounded today, as doubts began to set in about the state of the Iran ceasefire announced just\u00a0two days earlier by Trump<\/a>.
Chief among them was that fewer than a half-dozen ships had been observed transiting the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
This article is part of\u00a0<\/em>\u201cUnaffordable America,\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0a series examining rising economic inequality in the U.S. and the policies that drive it.<\/em>
It\u2019s a tough time to be serving drinks on the Las Vegas strip. Visits are down and those who are coming are tipping less, if at all. That\u2019s according to Sherie Cummings, who would know: She\u2019s worked as a casino cocktail waitress for more than 20 years.
This year, though, she looked forward to a financial bright spot. She expected a bigger tax refund for her and her husband, a bartender, following Trump\u2019s pledge of no taxes on tips. But despite the couple earning about $60,000 in tips last year, their refund wasn\u2019t as big as she expected. That\u2019s because of a cap, she learned, on how much in tips they could deduct.
\u201cWe were disappointed,\u201d Cummings said. \u201cI feel like a lot of the servers, bartenders, waitresses, tip earners were gaslit by the \u2018no tax on tips.\u2019\u201d
\u201cIt\u2019s a little relief, but it\u2019s not enough relief, not at all,\u201d she added.
Trump has\u00a0repeatedly touted<\/a>\u00a0\u201cno tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security\u201d as a key success of his second term since his \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d passed last year. Many Americans are benefiting from the tax changes in the bill: The average refund this tax season was $3,521, about $350 more than last year,\u00a0according to IRS data<\/a>\u00a0as of March 27. The White House has said the extra cash in people\u2019s pockets will help boost the economy.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Two Democrats seeking to flip one of Iowa\u2019s Republican-held Senate seats spent\u00a0<\/strong>this evening at a forum here appealing to progressive activists and voters who could influence the June primary.
But it was a Democrat from 1,100 miles away who emerged as a tension point.
State Sen. Zach Wahls tried to characterize his primary rival, state Rep. Josh Turek, as an extension of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. While Schumer has not endorsed in the race, there\u00a0have been signals<\/a>\u00a0that he prefers Turek.
Playing to a crowd unhappy with the influence of big money in politics, Wahls linked Turek to Schumer by noting Turek\u2019s support from VoteVets, an outside spending group that\u00a0has aligned with Senate Democratic leadership\u00a0<\/a>in the past.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
A group of Senate Democrats said in a letter yesterday that they plan to force a vote on a war powers resolution next week to halt military operations in Iran and require Congress\u2019 approval on any future military actions.
\u201cThis temporary ceasefire agreement<\/a> \u2014 which is already being violated \u2014 starts a very short clock for Congress to finally end this unprecedented chaos,\u201d the letter said.
\u201cAbsent immediate steps by Republican leadership to stand up to Trump\u2019s increasingly erratic behavior, we will once again force a vote on a War Powers Resolution to finally end this dangerous war in the Middle East,\u201d the letter continued.
The letter was signed by Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Adam Schiff of California, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., addressed the plan earlier today, telling reporters that \u201cCongress must reassert its authority, especially at this dangerous moment. No president, Democrat or Republican, should take this country to war alone.\u201d
A war powers vote can be triggered by a member of the minority at any point, but Senate Democrats have not yet indicated precisely when they plan to do so next week.
Democrats need Republican support if they hope to get the resolution across the finish line, as it requires a simple majority to pass. The Republican-led Senate has rejected war powers resolutions in previous months largely along party lines.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., shared a similar letter earlier yesterday saying House Democrats will try to vote on a war powers resolution<\/a> to end the war in Iran during a pro forma session today.
The\u00a0Justice Department<\/a>\u00a0announced yesterday that the FBI had arrested a former\u00a0Army employee<\/a>\u00a0whom federal prosecutors accused of leaking classified information to a journalist.
Courtney Williams, 40, of North Carolina, was arrested Tuesday and charged yesterday with transmitting \u201cclassified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist.\u201d
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Trump criticized NATO on social media <\/a>in his first comments after a closed-door meeting with Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House.
\u201cNATO WASN\u2019T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON\u2019T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN,\u201d Trump said on Truth Social. \u201cREMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!\u201d
Rutte told CNN in an interview<\/a> that his conversation with Trump was a \u201cvery frank, a very open discussion, but also a discussion between two good friends.\u201d He said they talked about Trump\u2019s frustration with NATO.
\u201cLet me be absolutely clear: He is clearly disappointed, and with many NATO allies. And I can see his point,\u201d Rutte said.
Rutte added that the \u201clarge majority of European nations\u201d were helpful to the U.S. during the war with Iran with \u201cbasing, with logistics, with overflights.\u201d He said that there was \u201cwidespread support\u201d for Trump\u2019s actions in the war and that \u201cdegrading the nuclear and … the ballistic missile capacity from Iran was really crucial.\u201d
Asked whether the Strait of Hormuz had been opened following Trump\u2019s demands <\/a>to clear the strategic waterway, Rutte did not give a straight answer.
\u201cI don\u2019t have the intelligence now at my fingertips to give you that answer, but I think over the next couple of days we will know,\u201d he said.
House Democrats will try to pass an Iran war powers resolution by unanimous consent during the House\u2019s pro forma session today, according to a letter from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
\u201cA two-week ceasefire is woefully insufficient. Accordingly, we have demanded that the House come back into session immediately in order to vote on our resolution to permanently end the war in the Middle East,\u201d Jeffries wrote.
Congress is in recess, but Jeffries said Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., will lead the effort today.
\u201cAll members who are in Washington are invited to join the effort on the House floor,\u201d Jeffries wrote.
It\u2019s unclear whether Ivey and the Democrats will even be able to try today. The Republican member presiding over a pro forma session does not need to call on members seeking recognition on the House floor. The presiding officer can simply adjourn the brief session after the prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.
During the shutdown last fall, Democrats tried to get recognition several times during pro forma sessions to demand that then-Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., be sworn in<\/a>.
Even if the presiding officer recognizes Ivey, all it would take is one other member to object to his unanimous consent request to block it.
NBC News<\/p>\n

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