“These are misguided resolutions and if adopted would reinstate the failed policies of the Biden administration and would abandon America’s closest ally in the Middle East,” Republican Senator James E. Risch of Idaho and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on the Senate floor.

In a sign of mounting apprehension over Israel ’s war in Gaza, a majority of Senate Democrats voted in favor of resolutions to block U.S. weapons sales to Israel on Wednesday. Despite this growing support, the measures failed by wide margins in the Republican-controlled chamber.