Backlash is continuing to grow after US House Democratic leaders made the decision to push off a war powers vote on President Donald Trump’s Iran war for more than two weeks, even though they may have the votes to pass it immediately. With Trump appearing poised to make the deathly unpopular decision to deploy ground troops into Iran within days, momentum around an act to restrict his…
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President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that he is avoiding using the word “war” in reference to the U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iran in order to avoid accountability from Congress — effectively openly admitting that his war on Iran is unconstitutional. “I won’t use the word ‘war’,” he said in an address to Republicans at a fundraising dinner. “They don’t like the word ‘war’ because you’…
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Vice President JD Vance broke a tied Senate vote to block advancement of a war powers resolution that would have stopped President Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization. Senate Republicans used a procedural maneuver Wednesday night to halt debate on the Vietnam War-era statute that gives Congress a check on the president’s…
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) has called on Congress to move to assert its war powers “every day this month” to stop President Donald Trump from invading more countries, including the six he has either threatened or attacked just in the past three weeks. In a post on X, Khanna said, “As a response to the illegal strikes in Venezuela, Congress must force votes and debate every day this month…
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House Republicans on Wednesday defeated a pair of war powers resolutions aimed at reining in US President Donald Trump’s airstrikes on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and his increasingly aggressive provocations that critics fear are leading to a war on Venezuela. The first resolution, introduced by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), demanded that the US refrain from…
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