{"id":193693,"date":"2026-03-06T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193693\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:18:08","slug":"south-texas-democrat-henry-cuellar-helps-kill-resolution-to-end-u-s-involvement-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193693\/","title":{"rendered":"South Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar helps kill resolution to end U.S. involvement in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar speaks at an event held at a South Texas business. Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture<\/p>\n

South Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar was one of just four Democrats<\/a> who helped defeat a U.S. House resolution which would have removed U.S. troops from Iran.<\/p>\n

Cuellar joined Democratic U.S. Reps. Greg Landsman, Jared Golden and Juan Vargas and all but two House Republicans in a Thursday afternoon vote defeating a resolution to limit President Donald Trump\u2019s ability to take unchecked military action against Iran without congressional approval.<\/p>\n

All four Dems who voted against the resolution have accepted money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a bipartisan lobbying group that advances the interests of the Israeli government, according to FEC reports. <\/p>\n

Cuellar, whose District 28 includes parts of San Antonio, has accepted $3.2 million in donations over the course of his career from the pro-Israel lobby and its megadonors, according to grassroots transparency group AIPAC Tracker<\/a>. That\u2019s the second highest amount of AIPAC-tied donations of the four Dems who voted against the resolution. Only Golden has accepted more at $3.4 million.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s Iran resolution failed on a 212-219 vote. Given Republicans\u2019 narrow majority in the House, the measure would have passed had the four Democrats voted with the rest of their party.<\/p>\n

The two Republicans who broke ranks were U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio. Massie was a co-sponsor of the resolution along with U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, a progressive Democrat from California. <\/p>\n

The U.S. joined Israel in attacking Iran, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, because of the \u201cimminent threat\u201d posed by Israel\u2019s planned missile strikes in the region. He said U.S. intelligence believed Israel\u2019s action was sure to lead Iran to make a retaliatory strike on U.S. bases in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn\u2019t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed, and then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn\u2019t act,\u201d Rubio said in remarks still posted on the State Department\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Trump has since contradicted that narrative<\/a> in the press, and Rubio later backpedalled on the revelation that there was no credible threat posed by an unprovoked Iran.<\/p>\n

Only one in four Americans approve of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a>. Experts point out this early, overwhelming opposition \u2014 that even crosses political lines \u2014 is nearly unprecedented compared to previous conflicts, for which there is usually an initial \u201crally \u2019round the flag\u201d effect, CNN reports<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command projects the conflict will last more than 100 days, \u201clikely through September,\u201d Politico reports<\/a>. Meanwhile, the broadening Middle East conflict is costing U.S. taxpayers more than $1 billion daily, according to Pentagon preliminary estimates<\/a> tabulated by Iran Cost Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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