Though the Senate was unable to override President Donald Trump's veto, a bipartisan majority of Congress echoed the American public's stance: No more fruitless wars.
Trump's veto, Congress sent a clear message challenging the Trump administration's Iran policy and reasserting a core principle of the Constitution. The bipartisan majority also echoes the sentiment of an American populace weary of fruitless wars and hurting from a pandemic that is still just taking shape with unpredictable consequences.
The basis of the resolution reflects this administration's ongoing manufactured crisis with Iran and has historical roots in the Constitution of the United States. Like the document itself, the congressional power to declare wars was revolutionary. Fitting with the overall scheme of checks and balances that are central to the constitution, the framers understood that war was an undertaking that necessitated careful deliberation.
But more than a constitutional debate, the resolution is a repudiation of Trump's handling of U.S. foreign policy. After inheriting a historical détente with Iran and a nuclear agreement that curbed Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons, Trump—at the assistance of his advisers—abandoned the nuclear deal in 2018, imposed brutal sanctions on Iran and put us on a path to further hostility. Since abrogating the deal, the U.S.
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