The House rejected Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s second attempt to force a U.S. military withdrawal from Lebanon, voting 235-189 against a war powers resolution that even two dozen members of her own party refused to support. The Michigan Democrat’s measure, H.Con.Res. 108, would have ordered President Donald Trump to pull American armed forces from hostilities in Lebanon within seven days, invoking section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution.
Twenty-two Democrats crossed the aisle to join Republicans in sinking the measure Tuesday. Only two Republicans, Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert, voted in favor, according to Fox News. The bipartisan rejection left Tlaib isolated, and exposed a widening rift between the progressive wing and the rest of the Democratic caucus on Middle East policy.
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