Democrats threaten to grind Senate to a halt to force public Iran hearings

Senate Democrats threaten to gridlock floor proceedings over President Donald Trump's strikes in Iran, demanding hearings with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., collectively filed five war powers resolutions last week, and they’re joined by Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Tim Kaine, D-Va. Kaine has filed resolution after resolution to curb Trump’s war authority since he took office for his second term.

Those resolutions, barring an official slate of hearings with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, could hit the Senate next week and grind down floor time."This Congress should be focused on the biggest military action since the Afghanistan war, and we're not even holding hearings on that," Booker told Fox News Digital. Murphy said that the resolutions could hit the Senate floor as soon as next week, and warned that if hearings are set in motion, Democrats would be able to "call up a vote every day on war powers and force at least a short debate and vote every day."