The Republican Party was divided over whether Trump should get involved in the Israel-Iran conflict

The consideration of President Donald Trump to bring the United States to the Israel conflict with Iran has revived tensions within the Republican Party and Trump’s own base, facing the Falcons of the Traditional Republican Party against the prominent anti -interventionist voices in the party.
Trump said Thursday, through the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, that he believes there is a “substantial probability of negotiations” between Israel and Iran, and will make a decision on escalations in the next two weeks.
Trump has repeatedly criticized US participation in wars abroad and promised to change the approach in, but as he weighs if the United States will be involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran, some of his supporters have accused him of returning to his anti -interventist position.
“Between the first base of the United States, which is the core of its base, there is a tremendous anger and a severe sense of betrayal,” News Wednesday of Trita Parsi, co -founder and executive vice president of the group of non -interventive foreign policy experts, told ABC. “This is exactly the type of foreign policy that Trump had promised to finish, not boost.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a key and ally defender of Trump in Capitol Hill, also dismissed the most aggressive members of his party as not authentically “Maga.”

President Donald Trump leaves the Oval office before addressing Marine One at the White House South Law, on June 20, 2025 in Washington.
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“Anyone who is slippery for the United States to get involved completely in the Israel/Iran War is not America First/Maga,” Greene wrote on a Facebook post June 15. “We are sick and tired of foreign wars. All of them.”
Some Republicans try to avoid military action through legislative means. Republican representative Thomas Massie announced Tuesday that he had introduced a bill with Democratic representative Rue Khanna to prevent Trump from involving the US army. UU. In “unauthorized hostilities” in Iran. Twenty -three representatives have now signed the bill, including many of the progressive “squad” of the Democratic Party.
“This is not our war. Even if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution,” Massie wrote in its publication x Announcing the bill, that Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib said that “she hoped to support.”
Justin Logan, director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies of the Liberan Cato Institute, told ABC News that some Republicans were rejecting the participation of the United States because “they realize that there is a real perspective that this can give in their political coalition and do great damage to the Republican Party.”
“There is not much evidence that the Maga base is excited about another important war in the Middle East,” Logan said. “I think the president, this is his last term, is listening to some people who have some wild and crazy ideas about American politics in the Middle East, and does not share their concern.”

Discardments The burned floor of an office building used by the Iranian Transmission Organization, run over by Israeli missiles days before June 16, during a tour, on June 19, 2025 in Tehran, Iran.
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Logan said that while the bill was a “noble” effort, he thought he would probably not hinder the participation of the United States if Trump decided to take that course.
“If you want it, the president will get war,” he said.
Other more adherent Republicans have adopted Trump’s consideration to openly help Israel’s campaign.
Republican senator Lindsey Graham Said in Fox News Earlier this week, Iran is “an extremist regime that, if given the opportunity, would erase Israel from the map and then come for us,” and expressed support to the United States, ensuring that Iran would not get a nuclear bomb.
In Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Graham told ABC News that he believed that Trump was “very stable” and supported the use of force if diplomacy conversations fail.
“He intends to make sure Iran does not have a nuclear weapon,” Graham said about Trump. “Either you want them to have a nuclear weapon, or you don’t. And if you don’t, if diplomacy fails, you use strength.”

The missiles thrown from Iran to Israel are seen from Hebron, in Western West Bank occupied by Israel, on June 19, 2025.
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Republican senator Rick Scott also said earlier this week that he is confident that President Trump will do the right thing. “
And Vance hopes to support Trump’s authority to make the final call.
“Potus has been incredibly consistent, for more than 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon … and repeatedly said that this would happen two ways: the easy way or the ‘other’ ‘ wrote in x Tuesday.
Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon told a group of journalists on Wednesday morning that it would be an error for the United States to get involved in a direct military action against Iran, and expressed his confidence that Trump’s base would support a decision in any way.
“I Will Tell You, If the President As Commander in Chief Makes A Decision to do This, and Comes Forward and Walks People Through It, The Maga Movement – You’ll Lose subm Make Sure He’s Got Information, But If He has more intelligence and makes that case to the American People, The Maga Movement Will Support President Trump, “Bannon Said At A Christian Science Monitor event.
TO Fox News Survey Published on Wednesday, he discovered that most registered voters believe that Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear program would result in greater danger, but almost three out of four Americans also believe that Iran represents a national security threat to the United States.
Allison Pecorin and Brittany of ABC contributed reports.