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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
WASHINGTON, March 4 (Xinhua) — U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday criticized President Donald Trump's "unconstitutional" war on Iran, calling on Republicans to "have the courage" to vote with Democrats to curb the president's war powers ahead of an expected Senate vote.
"It's been four days since the Trump administration dragged the United States into a war that most Americans oppose, and his administration can't explain why we did it. I left the intelligence briefing more concerned than reassured," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters at a Capitol Hill briefing.
"The reasons change by the hour: regime change, nuclear weapons, missiles, defense, preventative measures, so what's the reason? When the rationale keeps changing, there's no strategy. There's no strategy," he said.
Senator Patty Murray, vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who also attended the briefing, said that "D. Trump started an unconstitutional war that no one asked for."
"Congress must end this war now. Republicans must have the courage to vote with Democrats to support the War Powers Resolution," she said.
The War Powers Act is a 1973 United States federal law designed to limit the president's ability to use U.S. military forces in armed conflicts without congressional approval.
The law limits military action without congressional approval to a narrow set of circumstances: “a national emergency caused by an attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”
While the law gives Congress the ability to quickly curb the president's war powers through a joint resolution, it remains unclear whether such a resolution targeting Iran could gain enough support to pass both chambers, given that most Republicans support U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
The Senate is expected to vote on the war powers resolution as early as Wednesday. –0–
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