A Senate war powers resolution scheduled for floor debate on Tuesday dominated the Sunday political programs, with Democrats pressing for what they called the first clean roll call on the Iran war and senior Trump administration officials answering almost exclusively in the language of gasoline prices, returning veterans and a sliding Brent crude.

Eleven days after the Islamabad ceasefire took effect and four days after the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez artificial intelligence moratorium died in the House Ways and Means Committee, the morning shows offered the clearest preview yet of a week in which the Senate is expected to vote on the Kaine-Murphy war powers resolution, the Appropriations Committee is expected to report out a roughly $96 billion emergency supplemental, and House Democrats will continue collecting signatures for a discharge petition aimed at forcing a vote on an independent Iran war commission.

Vice President J.D. Vance, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in his first extended Sunday show interview since the ceasefire, said the administration would “respect the Senate’s process” on the war powers vote but called the resolution “a backward-looking exercise on a forward-looking problem.” Vance argued the Islamabad framework had already constrained executive action by tying any renewed U.S. strikes to a multilateral monitoring failure determined by the UN observer mission in the Strait of Hormuz, a structure he said “does the same work Congress is now trying to legislate, only faster.”

“The president ended a war he didn’t start, brought 38 Americans home from Doha and is watching pump prices fall for the third straight week,” Vance said. “He is not going to spend May relitigating March.”

Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, the lead Democratic co-sponsor of the resolution, used a back-to-back appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” to argue the opposite. Kaine said his office now counted “between three and five” Republican senators who had privately indicated they would support the measure, and predicted the resolution would clear the chamber “by a margin no one in this White House expected three weeks ago.” He named only Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky publicly. Aides to Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Todd Young of Indiana repeated end-of-week guidance that the senators were “continuing to review” the resolution.

“This is not about second-guessing a ceasefire that is holding,” Kaine said. “This is about whether the next president — of either party — can put 350 Americans in flag-draped coffins without a single roll-call vote in this Capitol. Tuesday is the answer.”

The other half of the Sunday split-screen was the Iran war commission, which has hardened from a Democratic talking point into a procedural fight. Representative Theresa Holloway of Michigan, lead author of the House resolution that would create a 10-member independent panel modeled on the 9/11 Commission, said on ABC’s “This Week” that 184 Democrats had signed onto the discharge petition since Thursday, with another 14 commitments expected by Tuesday. Holloway said she was “in conversation” with three House Republicans — none of whom she identified — who had expressed openness to backing the panel if its scope was narrowed to operational decisions rather than the underlying decision to engage.

Representative Mike Lawler of New York, asked on the same program whether he might join a narrowed commission proposal, said he was “not closing any doors” but wanted to see the supplemental pass first. Speaker Mike Johnson, in a written response provided to ABC, called the discharge effort “a partisan stunt that ignores the work the intelligence committees are already doing.”

Layla Hassan, a Beirut-based regional analyst with the Carnegie Middle East program, said the commission fight was being read carefully in Gulf capitals. “Riyadh and Doha mediated this ceasefire on the assumption that Washington’s executive branch could deliver compliance for at least 18 months,” Hassan said in a telephone interview. “A war powers resolution that passes both chambers, even symbolically, complicates that calculus. So does a commission that drags officials into open testimony. The mediators are watching whether U.S. domestic politics is now a variable in their security planning.”

The Sunday shows also captured the early shape of the post-AI-moratorium fight. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in a taped interview that aired on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said he expected to introduce a “much narrower” bill within two weeks focused on grid-impact disclosure, mandatory worker-displacement reporting and a federal pre-deployment evaluation requirement for the largest models. Sanders said the new draft would drop the headline training-compute cap that anchored the original bill but would add a state-preemption protection allowing New York, California and Washington to enforce their own moratoria.

“We lost a vote, we did not lose the argument,” Sanders said. “If this Congress will not act, three governors and a lot of state legislators are about to.”

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on the same program, was sharper. She named four Democratic colleagues she said she would campaign against in primaries if they voted against the revised bill, including two of the three who broke with the caucus on April 22. The remarks, which aired in the program’s final block, generated the morning’s first significant intra-party blowback. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a statement issued shortly after the show ended, said the caucus would “continue to work through policy differences as a family” and declined to address the primary threat directly.

Energy and economic numbers framed the administration’s case. Brent crude closed Friday at $94.10, down from a peak above $125 in late March; the S&P 500 has recovered roughly three-quarters of its war-period losses; and the Department of Labor’s preliminary April jobs print, due Friday, is expected to show payroll growth of 180,000 to 210,000, according to two Labor Department officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the figures are not yet final. Treasury Secretary Mira Goldfarb, on “Fox News Sunday,” cited those numbers seven times in a 12-minute interview and described the coming week as “the moment the recovery starts showing up in real households.”

Goldfarb declined to say whether the administration would lobby Senate Republicans to vote against the war powers resolution but said the president “expects his party to stand with him on the question of his constitutional authority.”

Aides on both sides of the aisle said they expected the supplemental, the war powers resolution and the commission discharge petition to move on overlapping tracks through midweek. Senate Majority Leader John Thune set a procedural vote on the war powers resolution for Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. and floor debate on the supplemental for Friday morning, with officials at the National Security Council saying additional details on the IAEA inspection protocol inside Iran would be released ahead of the Friday session.