House appears on track to defeat resolution curbing Trump's war powers in Iran [View all]
Source: The Hill
02/25/26 6:00 AM ET
The House appears set to sink legislation designed to curb President Trump’s use of military force in Iran, potentially lending the administration a boost as it escalates its threats against Tehran. The bipartisan war powers resolution, sponsored by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), aims to reassert Congress’s authority to wage war by requiring Trump to win congressional approval before launching any strikes against Iran.
But Massie, so far, is the only House Republican to say he’s supporting the resolution. And a small handful of Democrats — all of them close allies of Israel — are already lining up to oppose it. The combination sets the stage for the measure to fail in the Republican-controlled House, which would give Trump what amounts to a tacit authorization to conduct unilateral strikes as the president and other top officials signal that such an attack could be imminent.
“They’re probably a week away from having industrial-grade bombmaking material,” Steve Witkoff, a former real estate developer who now serves as Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, told Fox News on Monday.
Khanna, Massie and other supporters of the check on executive war powers maintain that they’re merely firming up the use-of-force authorities delineated by the Constitution, which explicitly grants Congress the power “to declare war.” “Trump officials say there’s a 90% chance of strikes on Iran. He can’t without Congress,” Khanna wrote last week on the social platform X.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5753315-trump-iran-military-force-resolution-fails/
Every Republican who refuses to support this and regain their "check and balance" authority, needs to resign. What is the point of them being there getting paid off the taxpayer's dime and not fulfilling their roles?
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