Trump’s strike against Iran divides Congress on war authorities

Washington – President Trump’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites during the weekend sparked efforts from the two parties to force the vote to reaffirm the Congress Authority to declare war, though I agreed to a ceasefire.

“It is a kind of important point now, right?” Louisiana Republic said Monday evening. “It seems somewhat ridiculous at this stage and I hope they will recognize it and put it in bed because it has no chance to pass anyway.”

Israel and Iran did not comment on Mr. Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire.

When Mr. Trump weighs last week whether he would use direct military force against Iran, a two -party group demanded that the president request the approval of Congress before moving forward with any procedure.

Several decisions of the war forces were presented in both rooms before Saturday’s strikes to prevent the United States from participating in the war between Iran and Israel. Decisions will require Congress to allow power against Iran, preventing the president from taking a single -sided action. Legislators who support the decisions emphasized that Congress alone has the power to declare war under the constitution.

In the wake of American attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, actors Thomas Massi, a Republican in Kentucky, and Roy Khanna, a Democrat in California, called on Congress to immediately enjoy voting on the war authorities’ decision, which has dozens of employees.

Members of the House of Representatives through the political spectrum, from Republican MP Margori Taylor Green from Georgia to Democrat Alexandria Okasio Cortez from New York, opposes Iran, indicating that the decision can have widespread support and traffic.

But Johnson indicated earlier on Monday that he might not get a vote, and reported that it was not “the right time” to resolve the war authorities.

Johnson said: “Over the course of 80 years, the heads of the two parties acted with the same authority of the Supreme Commander according to Article Two,” Johnson said. “The president assessed that the danger was imminent enough to take his authority as a major leader and make this decision.”

Massi said that he would not be forced to vote on the decision if the ceasefire was not involved in “hostilities” towards Iran.

“Then it is a point of discussion,” he said, describing the situation, “Wait and see.”

Meanwhile, senior Democrats in Congress said they are still in the dark about Mr. Trump’s decision Three nuclear sites bombed In Iran on Saturday, even as Iran Revenge strikes launched Monday.

The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, a democratic in New York, said on Monday afternoon that he was still not informed by the White House. Jeffrez received a brief call shortly before Mr. Trump announced the strikes to the public on Saturday, according to a source familiar with the call.

Jeffrez told reporters that the notification was “a courtesy call without any explanation for logic” for US military participation in Iran and accused the president of misleading the public.

He wants to know, “What is the administration hiding?” Jeffrez added that he asked the administration to inform Congress leaders, senior Democrats and Republicans in the intelligence committees of the escalating conflict. “It has not yet happened, and it is not clear to me what the administration is hiding from Congress and the American people.”

A spokesman for the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat in New York, said he had received a similar notice “without any details” before the strikes against Iran.

In a statement on Monday after Iran’s revenge, Schumer said he had asked the Trump administration to give him a secret briefing on “a full threat image, intelligence behind Iran’s revenge, details, scope and scope for any American response.”

“The Trump administration should not make the same mistake he made this week by launching strikes without giving any details to Congress,” Schumer said.

Jeffrez also said he had not been brought up earlier on Monday before Iran fired missiles at an American base in Qatar.

But Johnson said he had a secret briefing on the situation on Monday morning.

“It was expected to take revenge,” Johnson told reporters.

The Trump administration is expected to inform all legislators in the House of Representatives and the elderly about the situation on Tuesday.

Jeffrez said that the administration did not provide Congress with any evidence that Iran pose an imminent threat that requires immediate military action.

“What is the imminent threat to the United States of America?” Jeffrez said. “There was no evidence to provide an imminent threat.”

In the Senate, a similar decision was made by the Democratic Senator Tim Kane from Virginia. In response to a question about the timing of voting on Monday, the majority of the Senate John Pararaso, a Republican in Wyoming, said that the Senate can vote this week.

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