GOP, Trump set for war powers confrontation with Democrats after Iran strikes
The Senate this week will debate and vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine.

President Trump on Monday slammed Democrats for criticizing his administration’s strikes in Iran over the weekend. “The Radical Left Democrats, a Party that has completely lost its way, are complaining bitterly about the very necessary and important attack, by the United States and Israel, on Iran,” Trump wrote in a Monday evening Truth Social post. …
The Senate this week will debate and vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine.
The newest Iran crisis, triggered by the weekend’s U.S.-Israeli strikes and the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, has become the first major foreign policy test for 2028 presidential hopefuls. Two days before President Donald Trump authorized those strikes, Vice President JD Vance, a likely Republican candidate, told the Washington Post there was “no…