{"id":2275,"date":"2026-06-18T19:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:07:53","slug":"trumps-iran-deal-hit-with-fierce-bipartisan-backlash-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran deal hit with fierce bipartisan backlash in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Congressional lawmakers in both parties are criticizing the Trump administration for striking a lopsided peace deal with Iran that falls short of its objectives for going to war.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2274\">Data leak unmasks members of Peter Thiel\u2019s elite, secretive \u2018Dialog\u2019 society<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senate Armed Services Chairman Roger Wicker said the deal \u201cnegotiates away the victories of Operation Epic Fury,\u201d as he and other Republicans raised concerns that Iran will use economic relief provided under the agreement to continue funding its terrorist proxies.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats were even more blunt in their criticisms of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran took Trump to the cleaners,\u201d said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday insisted the peace deal is a \u201cwin-win\u201d for the U.S. because if they don\u2019t change their behavior, \u201ctheir military and their nuclear program is still destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the deal, a memorandum of understanding that President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed Wednesday, leaves much to be negotiated over a 60-day timeline to reach a final deal.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has committed not to develop or procure a nuclear weapon and to downblend its current stockpile of enriched uranium, but the first-phase agreement includes no enforcement mechanisms to ensure Iran will not restart its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has given up what many lawmakers view as its primary source of leverage by agreeing to end its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days and to immediately issue waivers for Iranian oil exports until sanctions blocking them are terminated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting next week, Iran will be able to sell oil without sanctions, and the strait is permanently under their control,\u201d said Sen. Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat. \u201cIt\u2019s a national embarrassment, but I guess it\u2019s the price we have to pay to end this incompetent war that was getting more disastrous every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Rounds, South Dakota Republican and Armed Services panel member, said he is concerned the MOU forces the U.S. to immediately release some of Iran\u2019s frozen assets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that\u2019s the case, what stops them from using that to fund Hezbollah and other terrorist activities as they have done in the past, and as they apparently still are committed to do?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Schumer also complained that the agreement does not force Iran to cut off support for its terrorist proxies while it gets to \u201crake in billions of dollars in oil sales, hundreds of billions of dollars in reconstruction aid, and God knows how much more in potential fees Trump may let it impose on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2272\">D.C.\u2019s democratic socialist mayor-to-be joins outsider candidates winning major elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several lawmakers fumed over a provision in the MOU stating that the U.S. and its regional partners will provide at least $300 billion for Iran\u2019s post-war reconstruction and economic development.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump and administration officials promise the money will not come from U.S. taxpayers, but most lawmakers do not believe Iran should get any payout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be used for constructive, useful purposes,\u201d Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wicker said the $300 billion fund \u201cwould make Iran\u2019s payoff under President Obama\u2019s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also oppose the U.S. lifting any sanctions on Iran, or unfreezing Iranian funds, in exchange for Iran\u2019s mere agreement to negotiate for another 60 days,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThe Iranian regime has not renounced its ultimate goal \u2014 \u2019Death to America, Death to Israel.\u2019 The regime will invest every penny it receives to further that aim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune, South Dakota Republican, said he needs to learn more about the source of the $300 billion in funding and the contingencies surrounding that and other economic relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there ought to be any financial incentives or any financial relief given to Iran absent their commitment to end their nuclear program,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mr. Thune and most other Republicans are willing to give the administration the benefit of the doubt for now as negotiations continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the MOU being signed, there\u2019s no diplomatic path to solving the Iranian nuclear problem, and I\u2019d rather do it through diplomacy,\u201d said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican. \u201cAre there problems with the MOU? Yeah. But the upside of trying is greater than the downside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Murphy said he does not believe a final agreement will come together and that the U.S. agreeing to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz \u201cwill have consequences for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2270\">Court agrees Trump team can rewrite slavery exhibits at Independence Park in Philadelphia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional lawmakers in both parties are criticizing the Trump administration for striking a lopsided peace deal with Iran that falls short of its objectives for going to war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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