US President Donald Trump [Photo/Agencies]
WASHINGTON - US House Republican leaders on Thursday canceled a scheduled vote on a resolution to limit President Donald Trump's war powers in Iran.
Republican leaders would have had to flip several votes because half a dozen Republicans were absent, and party leaders could not have won the critical vote for the president, so they postponed it until after lawmakers return from recess in June, the Politico reported.
The resolution was introduced by Gregory Meeks, a Democratic representative from New York and the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
"We had a vote because of this president's war of choice that was going to pass, we had the votes without question, and they knew it, and as a result they're playing a political game," Meeks told reporters after the vote was canceled.
