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Democrats demand immediate vote in Congress to limit Trump’s war on Iran
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Top Democrats demanded over the weekend that Congress hold an immediate vote on whether to restrict President Donald Trump’s military action against Iran.
The House and Senate were already expected to vote this week, but Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran has increased the urgency for lawmakers to reclaim their authority.
This comes as Israel and the United States are launching new waves of intense attacks on Iran as part of their joint campaign to topple the country’s government, plunging the Middle East into a new regional conflict with no specific timeline or outcome.
Heated rhetoric from both Washington and Tehran indicates that tensions will rise further in the coming hours and days.
Representative Gregory W Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he would “get on the next plane” to vote against the war.
Meanwhile, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries called for immediate action to limit Trump’s attacks on Iran.
Democrats’ strategy of pushing for votes on war power resolutions has been touted as a way for Congress to roll back its constitutional authority to declare war, but so far they have all failed.
In other developments:
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Donald Trump linked the massive attack he ordered on Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss in a social media post about allegations that the Tehran government interfered in the US election. This is the second military operation by the Trump administration to address allegations about the president’s 2020 results.
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Donald Trump said on Sunday he was ready to talk to what’s left of Iran’s leadership after the country’s supreme leader was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes aimed at toppling the regime. Trump said intense bombardment of Iranian cities was in its second day and Tehran’s missile counterstrikes were causing tremors in the region and the global economy.
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Three US soldiers were killed as part of US military operations against Iran, US Central Command said on Sunday. These are the first confirmed deaths since the United States launched an offensive against Iran on Saturday.
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Iranian community in Los Angeles speaks out about Israeli and US attackSome say ‘this is not an occupation, it is liberation’.
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The US military reportedly used Anthropic’s AI model Claude to inform its attack on Iran despite Trump’s decisionannounced hours ago that it would sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools.
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National Democrats are watching the Texas Senate primary closely to see what style and message resonate – Anti-Maga outrage or a populist crusade against a “corrupt” political system.
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While Republicans celebrated the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with praise for decisive action by Donald Trump, Democrats faced their own divisions and a reckoning over how to present a united front.
Many were quick to condemn the U.S. president for sidelining Congress to wage an illegal and unconstitutional war and demanded a quick vote on a war powers resolution that would limit military aggression.
But some in the party felt compelled to accept the death of authoritarian Khamenei as a positive development and show their support for US troops. A small group of centrist Democrats even threatened to undermine a war authorization resolution if it came up.
“President Trump was willing to do what was right and necessary to ensure true peace in the region.” he tweeted John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s Democratic senator and staunch supporter of Israel, declared his “definite no” on the war powers vote and posted a picture of the Ayatollah with the provocative statement: “Let’s see who feels sorry for this garbage.”
Democratic leaders have been outspoken during the massive U.S. military buildup in the Middle East, denouncing the U.S. reluctance to engage with Congress and its lack of long-term strategy for Iran. They stated that it was Trump who shattered Barack Obama’s rule in his first term. Nuclear deal with Iran.
Democrats demand immediate vote in Congress to limit Trump’s war on Iran
Hello, welcome to the live blog of US politics.
Top Democrats demanded over the weekend that Congress hold an immediate vote on whether to restrict President Donald Trump’s military action against Iran.
The House and Senate were already expected to vote this week, but Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran has increased the urgency for lawmakers to reclaim their authority.
This comes as Israel and the United States are launching new waves of intense attacks on Iran as part of their joint campaign to topple the country’s government, plunging the Middle East into a new regional conflict with no specific timeline or outcome.
Heated rhetoric from both Washington and Tehran indicates that tensions will rise further in the coming hours and days.
Representative Gregory W Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he would “get on the next plane” to vote against the war.
Meanwhile, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries called for immediate action to limit Trump’s attacks on Iran.
Democrats’ strategy of pushing for votes on war power resolutions has been touted as a way for Congress to roll back its constitutional authority to declare war, but so far they have all failed.
In other developments:
-
Donald Trump linked the massive attack he ordered on Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss in a social media post about allegations that the Tehran government interfered in the US election. This is the second military operation by the Trump administration to address allegations about the president’s 2020 results.
-
Donald Trump said on Sunday he was ready to talk to what’s left of Iran’s leadership after the country’s supreme leader was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes aimed at toppling the regime. Trump said intense bombardment of Iranian cities was in its second day and Tehran’s missile counterstrikes were causing tremors in the region and the global economy.
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Three US soldiers were killed as part of US military operations against Iran, US Central Command said on Sunday. These are the first confirmed deaths since the United States launched an offensive against Iran on Saturday.
-
Iranian community in Los Angeles speaks out about Israeli and US attackSome say ‘this is not an occupation, it is liberation’.
-
The US military reportedly used Anthropic’s AI model Claude to inform its attack on Iran despite Trump’s decisionannounced hours ago that it would sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools.
-
National Democrats are watching the Texas Senate primary closely to see what style and message resonate – Anti-Maga outrage or a populist crusade against a “corrupt” political system.
-
All unaccompanied immigrant children, many pregnant as a result of rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas Critics say this is to prevent the provision of abortion services from constituting a serious human rights violation.
