By SUZANNE DOWNING
Sept. 24, 2026 – Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski once again broke with President Donald Trump on the Iran conflict Thursday, joining three other Republicans and most Senate Democrats in voting for a resolution directing the president to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran.
The measure failed, 49–50. Murkowski’s vote put her on the losing side of another high-profile dispute with Trump, but it did not change the outcome: Republicans had enough votes to defeat the resolution without her.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina also supported the measure. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the lone Democrat to vote against it. Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland did not vote.
The House passed the resolution in July, setting up Thursday’s Senate vote. It sought to require the removal of U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran under the War Powers Resolution. Its defeat means Congress has again declined to direct an end to the military campaign, which Trump has defended as necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
For Alaska voters, the roll call offers a clear distinction between Murkowski and the Republicans who backed the president on this vote. It may also be Congress’s last recorded vote on the war before the November midterm elections, when voters will decide control of the House and Senate.
26 thoughts on “Murkowski joins Democrats in bid to halt Iran conflict; Senate rejects measure 49–50”
“Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski once again broke with President Donald Trump on the Iran conflict Thursday…” No, I believe President Donald Trump broke Lisa. She has yet to vote as a Republican. She hates Trump, and she is incapable of getting out of her own way. As the President says, if he cured cancer, she’d vote against it. Luckily, this vote means nothing whatsoever.
Yeah, it does, it means that she has got to go in 2028. No if’s and or but’s about it, she has gotta go. She isn’t a Republican. She has a severe case of TDS. Incurable.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Rich Barris, the most accurate pollster since 2016 based on his predictions versus election day results, disclosed recently that he consulted with Dan Sullivan this past spring. He told Sullivan (who knew he was in trouble then for re-election) that Sullivan would need to come out against the war and chart a more independent path based solely on Alaskan interests and leave the neo-coning behind him. It’s clear what choice Sullivan made.
Begich is in trouble too. Having Mike Johnson campaign with him tied him closely with this Congress and hurt him. All his votes supporting this war have too.
Neocons would rather have their war then fight for the American people and do what they were elected to do in 2024. What a mighty coalition we had to transform his country. Donors didn’t like that and they rule both parties and here we are in this awful place.
Somehow, Micah, I bet that even you would concede that having Iran fund terrorism in the US is a bad idea, and yet, all the Presidents since Carter have allowed it. I think that stopping the next 9/11 is really in Alaska’s interest as it is for the rest of the world, but YMMV.
40+ trillion in debt. 2 trillion+ deficits per annum. 1.6 replacement rate. Country flooded with illegals. Yet you and your lot would rather carry water for a foreign power. There is increasing similarity between Biden and his supporters and 2025-6 Trump and his dwindling supporters (of whom I used to be one).
Our donor class, the deep state and the state of Israel are greater enemies to our people then the state of Iran is- and by a wide margin. The state of Iran did not destroy our 2024 coalition with a clear road map for domestic reform. The state of Iran does not try and goad us into war after war in a part of the world where we have no interest. The state of Iran does not try and censor our speech. The state of Iran does not try and control our politics.
Absolutely right about Iran. Quite simply they just want to kill any and all Americans! Where have you been the last 50 years?
America’s weakness is in every generation for the last two hundred years we easily retreat into isolation. Over decades we let global problems with unfriendly nations to the West pile up before a war is inevitable.
It was either severely weaken Iran or give them more time to develop a nuclear bombs and wait to see how the regime will use it against a nation.
You know that! an empire can not be afraid to Fight.
Under the US Constitution the President is the Commander in Chief
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States…
Congress is tasked with Declarations of War
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; . . .
Congress has only declared war 11 times. Twice in WWI, Six times in WWII, once with Spain, once with Mexico, and once with Great Britain during the war of 1812.
There have been eight times when Members of Congress have filed suit to force various Presidents to comply with War Powers Resolution requirements. The courts have have so far deemed the matter to be one for the political branches to resolve. In 2011 ten Members of Congress brought suit in federal court seeking a declaratory judgment regarding a War Powers Resolution, the federal district court dismissed the case due to lack of standing.
Nancy and I enrolled Lisa in private Catholic schools so she could learn to repent of her sins. She also attended catechism. But she took a fascination in radical Islam during college and somewhere along the way, we lost her. She’s an anti-semite and pro-Palestinian warrior. She hates Trump and sides with the terrorists. She thinks Iran should have nuclear weapons too. It’s hard for Nancy and I to believe she actually represents Alaska as a US senator. She’s a spoiled child and I am ashamed of myself for appointing her in 2002. Nancy and I no longer have any Republican friends. Only a bunch of derelict, delapitated, old pony-tailed Democrats looking for a free lunch. We can’t even ride the ferry out of Wrangell anymore without getting booed. I wish I never paid for her 6 registrations to re-take the bar exam. If it weren’t for my legacy, I would have campaigned for Joe Miller and Kelly Tshabaka.
When Lisa disclosed that she is a huge supporter of abortion, even partial birth abortion, Frankie and I had no doubt that she had terrorism on her mind. Such a disgraceful child. And Catholic, no less.
Lisa is a dimocrat . She has TDS. Which Nuclear tipped missile would she like? #1 originally scheduled for Tel Aviv or #2 scheduled for the Swamp. We need to partner with Israel and annihilate these bastards once and for all. We need to get Lisa replaced ASAP.
I wonder if the Senator speaks anymore to people that helped her to get elected to the Senate back in 2004. I expect not. There is never a shortage of people that are willing to affirm the actions of a US Senator – whatever they might be. Doors are always opened; jokes are always laughed at; greetings always returned. Old friends easily forgotten or replaced with new “friends”. What an empty, miserable life.
You can say that again, JMARK. They hate me, not because of me. But because of being Lisa’s sire. I haven’t made any new friends lately, either Just one Democrat at the end of the street in Wrangell who I gave a bank loan to in 1971. His wife thinks I’m dumb and I gave her a loan too.
The guy’s wife is correct, Frankie. It’s easy to give out, and keep, other people’s $$. Now we know how socialism got ahold of the Murkowski clan. Legends in your own mind. Your family legend was constructed on fraud.
Murkowski even looks like a very mad woman in every picture! OUT!
Murkowski’s not on the right side very often, but this time even she knows which way the wind is blowing! Trump’s war in Iran – instigated by Israel – will be the downfall of the Republican Party in the midterms & the end of Trump’s presidency. Biggly!
Go back to fishing. You need sustinence, pal. TDS has zapped the protein in your brain.
Lisa is a complete embarrassment to our great state. She should listen to her BFF mean Mary and never run again. Term limits are sounding better all the time. Why does she dress like an Alaska Native? Biggest RINO ever.
The Senator voted against forcibly stopping a foreign government who hates us from building nuclear weapons to launch against us.
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Might be interesting to find out from the Senator what part of “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;” does not appy to stopping Iran from building nuclear weapons to launch against America.
(https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/oath-of-office.htm)
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We expect this treason from Democrat-Socialists whose idea of foreign policy is sending planeloads of cash to radical Islamists to finance their war against America and encouraging enforcement of Sharia law in America. We don’t expect this treason from Republican lawmakers.
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Maybe, in her own inimitable way, the Senator showed us our choices: (a) recoil in horror from the notion of “Trump’s war”, embrace the official line which enables the radical Islamist regime who hates us to launch nuclear missiles against us, or (b) drive on while President Trump neutralizes that threat.
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Other choices may be out there, but what they are, how they’re better for America, nobody seems to be saying.
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Wrong choice …looks like all that’s left to do is write America’s epitaph, presumably in Farsi. on something that’s not too radioactive.
All American intelligence agencies briefed Trump that there was no credible evidence that Iran was actively pursuing the manufacture of a nuclear weapon and, in fact, there was in place an Iranian edict strictly prohibiting that. It was Netanyahoo and Israeli intelligence that convinced Trump otherwise. Those are the facts.
As a PDB consumer, briefer, NRO analyst, remind again which, the writer would certainly know the facts.
All American intelligence agencies??? Including the ones that were playing video games while the suicidal terrorist pilots were being taught how to fly Boeing Jets in Florida the year before they murdered 3000 plus civilians while they flew the planes into the towers and pentagon? Now dont try to tell me it was a planned inside job. You need to catch some real fish and quit eating the bait.
It sure takes a small brain to believe that one can train on a Cessna 150 to piloting a modern jetliner in a matter of months! The whole 9/11 official narrative stinks to high Heaven!
Lisa Murkowski….LM……L for larvae 🐛 and M for Maggot 🦟 …. Couldn’t find a maggot so a mosquito is almost as appropriate!
Princess Murk is insane. She’s unable to represent Alaska due to a mental illness called TDS.