The vote will use a procedure called unanimous consent, which allows legislation to pass instantly without debate or formal tally if no member objects. Republicans are expected to block the resolution. The temporary ceasefire is already showing serious cracks, with Israel continuing to strike Lebanon, claiming it is hunting Hezbollah.
Iran insists the Israeli strikes in Lebanon were covered by the truce. Lebanese authorities say the latest wave of strikes killed at least 254 people and injured another 837 people, and totally levelled buildings in central Beirut. Iran has reportedly moved to halt oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz again, just hours after the first vessels were allowed through.
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No official ceasefire text has been released. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, is pressing ahead with the resolution and expressed significant doubt in the ceasefire in a letter to colleagues on Wednesday. JD Vance has called the ceasefire 'fragile', and the UN secretary-general warned that continued Israeli military activity in Lebanon 'poses a grave risk' to the deal.
The House is on a two-week recess and will not return for formal votes until 14 April. Republican crossover support for a war powers resolution remains elusive, with Representative Nancy Mace, who floated supporting Democrats last month, now considered unlikely by members of both parties to break ranks. Representative Don Bacon, a Republican and retired one-star general, backed a war powers measure limiting Trump's Venezuela policy earlier this year.