Congress split over War Powers Resolution and Iran

White House trying to pull wool over Congress' eyes? White House Letter to claim War Powers clock stopped: "There has been no exchange of fire between United States Forces and Iran" since ceasefire began Gen Caine: "Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran...attacked US forces more than 10 times"

In 1990, I talked my boss out of invoking the War Powers resolution before Bush 41 went into Kuwait. But Trump's attack on Iran is a different kind of conflict, and Congress should rein in this exercise in unlimited war-making, as I wrote here: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The idiotic ploy that this is part of a separate war and doesn’t restart the War Powers Act clock…which, by the way, never stopped…is classic Trump-Hegseth b.s.

What the Iran War Reveals About the War Powers Resolution and How Congress Can Act “Even under the narrow executive branch interpretation, U.S. Armed Forces have engaged in ‘hostilities’ since the April 7th ceasefire took effect.” By @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and @bcfinucane.bsky.social

The War Powers Act has never been legally tested, and that is what we need. Until the Constitution is amended, it is at odds with the clear letter of the Constitution that a declaration is necessary before war. Congress has been a lazy check on executive power for decades & we’re paying for it.

This is NOT what the War Powers Act requires. Trump's regime is violating the law & Congress is allowing it.

I will make sure my student (who is in my class on the Vietnam War) who just got word he’s deploying knows we’re in a cease fire. Good thing he’s missing the last class where we’re discussing the War Powers Resolution. (Seriously. I couldn’t make this up)

"From the moment it began, Trump’s war with Iran violated the U.S. Constitution and the UN Charter." Now, the war is "trippily illegal," experts say, with the administration seeking to circumvent the War Powers Resolution. Congress must uphold the rule of law and end this illegal, immoral war.

Donald Trump won the presidency on a promise to lower costs on day one. Today, gas prices are at their highest level in four years thanks to his war-of-choice in Iran. Congress must vote on a war powers resolution and rein in the President’s unauthorized military actions.

Opening the strait is in no way related to the actions that caused the strait to close So says our brilliant SecDef Hegseth. Don’t even think of using the War Powers Act

SecDef trying to dishonestly disconnect today from the past 9 weeks to illegally avoid the War Powers Act. He is vile.

We did it, fam. We started a new 60-day war powers clock by renaming the conflict Project Freedom.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is leading a push within the Senate Republican Conference for a vote on a resolution to authorize the use of military force against Iran beyond the 60-day window set by the 1973 War Powers Act.

They did this to avoid the War Powers Act and a five-year old could see through this.

Ken Harbaugh speaks with Congressman Seth Moulton about the Iran war, the administration's cynical end-run around the War Powers Resolution, and what it means for troops in the field when their commander in chief can't give them a straight answer about what they're fighting for.