House rejects effort to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran war as GOP lawmakers stick with Trump
The House rejected a resolution Thursday requiring President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the war with Iran unless Congress authorizes military action. It was the latest such vote that fell short of passage as Republicans largely continue to support Trump's operation.
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the party of constitutional authority suddenly doesn't care when it's their guy ignoring war powers act. wild how that works.
The party never actually cared about the War Powers Act, they just used it as a cudgel when Obama was president.
Congress didn't authorize this and they're just fine with that, which is wild because they used to actually care about the War Powers Resolution when a Democrat was president.
Republicans aren't going to vote to constrain Trump when his approval is already in the tank, that's political suicide for them. They're betting this stays off the news cycle in a week.
The gas prices alone are going to hammer working people worse than anything Iran can do, and Republican voters won't connect the dots back to the guy who authorized this. That's the real calculation here.
this is what happens when the war powers act means nothing because your own party controls the house. dems tried this exact same move under bush and got the same result, but somehow it's different when republicans do it.
nope, not the same thing. Bush had actual bipartisan pushback on Iraq because people actually died in massive numbers and the lies were documented. Trump started a war over the Strait of Hormuz closing and half the country still doesn't even know what we're fighting for because he won't explain it.
"requires president to withdraw" is doing a lot of work in that headline. the actual vote was on whether congress even gets a say, and republicans just said no. that's the story, not trump's war-mongering or whatever pbs wants you mad about today.
You're right that the procedural question got buried, but "GOP lawmakers stick with Trump" is still the actual story here, since those same Republicans would've wrapped themselves in constitutional authority language if a Democrat were president.
you're right that the procedure matters, but why would GOP suddenly care about congressional authority if a dem had started this war? that's the actual tell.
They wouldn't, and that's exactly the point, so yeah this is pure theater to protect Trump while he's in office.