No vote, no war? Congress to challenge Trump on Iran strikes
Lawmakers demand war powers vote arguing the White House bypassed Congress in launching military action in Iran
With U.S. bombs still falling on Iran, Congress is barreling toward a constitutional confrontation with President Trump -- and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding a reckoning over who has the authority to take the country to war.
Lawmakers demand war powers vote arguing the White House bypassed Congress in launching military action in Iran
Members of Congress swiftly denounced the president’s military action against the Islamic Republic alongside IsraelUS-Israeli attack on Iran – live updatesUS and Israel strikes on Iran: what we know so farDonald Trump’s failure to build a case with the US public for striking Iran and then going ahead apparently without even alerting Congress’s key national…
Following the attack, Democrats and a few Republicans escalated their calls for swift votes on whether to curb the president’s power to continue using force against Iran without explicit authorization.
Congressional leaders on Saturday morning issued a range of reactions to the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran. Reactions were largely split along party lines, with Democrats questioning the move as a potential abuse of President Donald Trump’s war powers, and Republicans backing the strikes as necessary to target an out-of-control regime hostile to…
President Trump broke his silence following the Iran strikes on Saturday morning, telling Axios of potential “off-ramps” in the conflict. “I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: ‘See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs],” Trump told Axios in a phone…