US House has once again voted to end military action in Iran after billions of dollars cost revealed.
According to Al Jazeera, the US House on Tuesday, September 15, for the third time approved the war power resolution.
The resolution would stop US President Donald Trump to continue military action in Iran with congressional approval.
The roll call late Tuesday, 220-204, was similar to earlier efforts this summer, with a few more Republicans joining all Democrats voting to bring an end to the conflict.
Republican decides not to support ‘open-ended’ war
Seven House Republicans backed the resolution, including three voting in favour for the first time.
Iowa congressman Zach Nunn, a Republican, explained his vote saying that “with the negotiating window closed, sustained combat operations now require congressional authorization.”
“I will not support another open-ended war,” Nunn said.
None of the resolutions has made it to the president’s desk, where Trump would almost certainly veto the measure.
Republican Representative Brian Mast of Florida, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, questioned which military resources Democrats would want to remove from the region where he said Iran remains a threat.
Mast said Trump is against “forever wars, and that is what he is ending,” the decades of hostilities from Iran.
Mast said, “They are a continuous ongoing threat to the United States. Enough is enough.”
The action is likely to be the last House vote on the Iran war ahead of the midterm elections, where the conflict overseas is playing a substantial role in the political campaigns.
The war that Trump launched on February 28 has dragged on, with on-again, off-again deadly missile strikes being exchanged and causing havoc in the region for nearly seven months.
Iran war costing US billions of dollars
The US war on Iran is worsening inflation and straining the country’s munitions stockpiles, a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found.
The report, released on Tuesday, found that the cost of the six-month war has reached $38bn and is expected to rise by $3bn per month.
The war is projected to increase inflation by 0.5 percentage points in the first three months of 2027.
