Did 47 U.S. senators just commit treason by attempting to sabotage Iran deal?

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, meanwhile, said it was highly unusual for a political party to insert itself into a foreign policy negotiation in opposition to the president.

“Republicans are undermining our commander in chief while empowering the ayatollahs,” he said from the Senate floor Monday. “We should always have robust debate about foreign policy, but it’s unprecedented for one political party to directly intervene in an international negotiation with the sole goal of embarrassing the president of the United States.”

On Twitter, many observers were quick to call the move by Senate Republicans “treason.”