WashingtonTrump says only he decides when the Iran war ends.
Vice President JD Vance says the war cost Republicans both chambers of Congress.
Congress holds the purse and war powers resolutions, but overriding a Trump veto takes two-thirds of both chambers.
A CNN exit poll found 74% of voters called the war a crucial or major factor.
Democrats take office January 3 with 54 Senate seats, short of a veto-proof majority.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 450+ reports worldwide
- Breitbart
- quotes Trump's own admission that the war drove gasoline up and that he expected oil to rise more, framing the war's cost as a deliberate bet
- News18
- asks whether Democrats' new congressional majorities can actually force an end to the war, stressing that winning Congress does not grant power to order withdrawal
- 경향신문
- reports that NBC projects Democrats at 259 House seats, the most in a midterm since 1990, and cites GOP voices calling it an extinction crisis