House Democrats on Thursday will deliver a powerful rebuke of President Trump’s war-making powers amid the ongoing crisis with Iran
House Democrats on Thursday will deliver a powerful rebuke of President Donald Trump’s war-making powers amid the ongoing crisis with Iran, over the dissent of some of the caucus’s moderate members.
The vast majority of Democrats are expected to vote in favor of the War Powers resolution — a measure that Congress has used sparingly in history but has been approved twice in the House since Trump became president, both related to the civil war in Yemen. “It will not become law, but it will embolden Iran,” said Rep. Liz Cheney , the third-ranking Republican in the House.
A similar resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine already has support from Sens. Mike Lee and Rand Paul, but will need at least two more Republicans to back the resolution for it to pass the Senate. “It wasn’t clear to me that they had specifics about what that imminent threat was,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith told reporters.
Lee and other lawmakers also said the officials warned that Congress should not even debate War Powers legislation or any other measures that would restrict Trump’s authority to attack Iran. Lee said their comments were “un-American” and “unconstitutional.”
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