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本周，参议院距离限制唐纳德·特朗普总统在伊朗的战争权限仅差两票。
这是参议院民主党人近年来最接近重新夺回国会在该问题上话语权的一次尝试，而这次投票险些成功，要归功于一位以独立立场著称的共和党参议员：阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基。
此次投票的背景是，国会已匆匆越过了授权或终止特朗普军事行动的60天期限。穆尔科斯基表示，她希望本届政府能就后续行动给出更清晰的说明，但截至目前尚未收到此类信息。
参议院民主党人终于打破共和党在特朗普伊朗战争问题上的团结，穆尔科斯基倒戈
阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基投票支持民主党，以限制特朗普总统在伊朗的战争权限。这并非她首次与总统决裂。（凯拉·巴特科夫斯基/盖蒂图片社；安娜·莫尼梅克/盖蒂图片社）
“因此我认为，现在是时候推进 discharge 动议，以便我们能通过《战争权力法案》履行我们的职责，”穆尔科斯基说道。“我们如今所处的境况，与上次就该问题投票时已经不同。”
她对任何一项立法法案的投赞成或反对票，大多遵循一个简单原则：这次投票将如何影响阿拉斯加州？
“穆尔科斯基参议员会深思熟虑地做出每一项决定，始终自问什么对阿拉斯加最有利，”穆尔科斯基的发言人约瑟夫·普莱沙告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“当她认为某项政策符合这些优先事项时，她就会支持它，无论党派或政治立场如何。”
这种决策风格在去年展现得淋漓尽致，当时穆尔科斯基投下了决定性一票，支持总统的“宏伟、完美法案”——这是他截至目前第二任期内最重要的立法成就。
阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基在参议院拨款委员会听证会上发言，2023年7月11日，华盛顿特区。（杰马尔·康特丝/盖蒂图片社为JDRF拍摄）
但当时穆尔科斯基将这一决定描述为“令人痛苦的”，是她在为阿拉斯加州争取到一系列胜利后才做出的选择。
“我必须权衡利弊，因为我所在州的民众是我放在首位的考量，”穆尔科斯基说道。“无论如何，我们都不能说这项法案是完美的。我希望众议院能审视这一法案，并认识到我们还有改进空间。”
穆尔科斯基原本希望参众两院能召开会议协商，以制定出更完善的版本，但这一设想最终未能实现。在参议院通过该法案后，众议院数小时后便予以通过，以遵守特朗普设定的7月4日最后期限。
参议院通过特朗普“宏伟、完美法案”，历经多轮马拉松式投票
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仅仅几周后，她便与特朗普和共和党立场相悖，反对一项旨在收回数十亿美元公共广播和“觉醒”国际援助项目资金的法案。
作为拨款委员会成员，穆尔科斯基认为，如今的情况并非立法，而是“我们从白宫得到的只是一个指示：‘这是我们希望你执行的优先事项，我们稍后会再与你对接。’”
“我无法接受这种做法，”她当时说道。
今年早些时候，她还在委内瑞拉问题上违背了特朗普的立场，与民主党人一起发起了一项程序性投票并获得通过，但最终在白宫和特朗普高级官员的强力游说下，关键票数反转，该战争权力决议被否决。
与她在伊朗战争权力投票中的理由类似，穆尔科斯基辩称，尽管政府声称尼古拉斯·马杜罗被抓获后委内瑞拉政府已配合行动，但特朗普政府并未给出“任何有意义的最终目标”。
共和党未能将“拯救美国法案”纳入党派一致通过的拨款法案
阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦外对记者发表讲话，2025年10月3日。（格雷姆·斯隆/盖蒂图片社）
在《保障美国选民资格（SAVE）美国法案》问题上，穆尔科斯基再次与总统唱反调。
早在共和党在参议院发起辩论这项注定失败的法案的数周前，她就公开表示反对这项选民身份证和公民身份核查立法。
穆尔科斯基指出，2021年国会民主党人试图推进全面选举改革法案时，共和党人一致反对，因为该法案将使选举联邦化，而这是我们长期以来一直反对的。
“不仅美国宪法明确规定各州有权管理联邦选举的‘时间、地点和方式’，而且来自华盛顿特区的一刀切式强制要求，在阿拉斯加这类地区几乎行不通，”她说道。
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或许穆尔科斯基与特朗普最严重的决裂发生在2021年1月6日国会山骚乱后不久，特朗普即将卸任之际。
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穆尔科斯基是为数不多投票支持弹劾特朗普的共和党人之一。
“如果数月来的谎言、组织支持者集会企图阻挠国会工作、煽动人群冲击国会大厦，以及在暴力发生后未采取任何有效行动都不值得弹劾、定罪和取消担任美国公职资格，那我实在想象不出还有什么情况符合标准，”穆尔科斯基当时在一份声明中说道。
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Murkowski vs Trump: Senator sides with Democrats on Iran after series of breaks with president
May 15, 2026 12:25pm EDT / Fox News
Former White House speechwriter and Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen discusses five Republican senators who voted with Democrats to limit President Donald Trump’s military authority in Venezuela on ‘America Reports.’
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The Senate was two votes away from taking a step toward handcuffing President Donald Trump’s war authorities in Iran this week.
It’s the closest Senate Democrats have come to trying to reassert Congress’ authority on the matter, and was nearly successful thanks to one Senate Republican known for an independent streak: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.
That vote, in particular, came after Congress had sprinted past the 60-day deadline to either authorize or halt Trump’s war. Murkowski argued that she hoped the administration would give more clarity on next steps, but so far hadn’t received such information.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voted with Democrats to handcuff President Donald Trump’s war authorities in Iran. It’s not the first time she’s broken with the president.(Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“So I felt that it was now time to advance a discharge so that we can discuss our responsibilities through the War Powers Act,” Murkowski said. “So it’s — we’re in a different place than we were last time we voted on this.”
Many of her votes for or against any given piece of legislation are determined by a simple principle: how will this vote affect Alaska?
“Senator Murkowski approaches every decision thoughtfully, always asking what is best for Alaska,” Joseph Plesha, a spokesperson for Murkowski, told Fox News Digital. “When she believes a policy advances those priorities, she supports it, regardless of party or politics.”
That style of decision-making was on full display last year, when Murkowski cast the deciding vote for the president’s “big, beautiful bill,” his most significant legislative accomplishment of his second term to date.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on July 11, 2023, in Washington, D.C.(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for JDRF)
But at the time, Murkowski described the decision as “agonizing,” and one that she came to only after securing a spate of wins for Alaska.
“I had to look on balance, because the people in my state are the ones that I put first,” Murkowski said. “We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination. My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.”
Murkowski had hoped that the Senate and House would go into conference to iron out a better product, but that never came. After the upper chamber advanced the package, the House passed it several hours later to adhere to Trump’s July 4 deadline.
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Just a few weeks later, she bucked Trump and Republicans on a package designed to claw back billions in funding to public broadcasting and “woke” international aid programs.
Murkowski, an appropriator, argued that instead of legislating, “what we’re getting now is a direction from the White House and being told, ‘This is the priority we want you to execute on it. We’ll be back with you with another round.’”
“I don’t accept that,” she said at the time.
She also went against Trump’s actions in Venezuela earlier this year, joining Democrats on a successful procedural vote that was ultimately later struck down after a heavy lobbying campaign from the White House and top Trump officials flipped key votes against the war powers resolution.
Similar to her reasoning on the Iran war powers vote, Murkowski contended that while the administration argued that the Venezuelan government was complying after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, there had been “no meaningful end state” given by Trump officials.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 3, 2025.(Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)
And on the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, Murkowski once again went against the president.
She teed up her resistance to the voter ID and citizenship verification legislation early, weeks before Republicans launched a campaign on the Senate floor to debate the doomed bill.
Murkowski noted that when congressional Democrats “attempted to advance sweeping election reform legislation in 2021, Republicans were unanimous in opposition because it would have federalized elections, something we have long opposed.”
“Not only does the U.S. Constitution clearly provide states the authority to regulate the ‘times, places, and manner’ of holding federal elections, but one-size-fits-all mandates from Washington, D.C., seldom work in places like Alaska,” she said.
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Perhaps Murkowski’s biggest break from Trump came as he was exiting office shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, riots on Capitol Hill.
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Murkowski was one of a handful of Republicans who voted to convict Trump.
“If months of lies, organizing a rally of supporters in an effort to thwart the work of Congress, encouraging a crowd to march on the Capitol, and then taking no meaningful action to stop the violence once it began is not worthy of impeachment, conviction, and disqualification from holding office in the United States, I cannot imagine what is,” Murkowski said in a statement at the time.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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