Legislators call Trump’s strikes on “unconstitutional” Iran
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Co-sponsors of Resolution of war powersRo Khanna, D-Calif and Thomas Massie representatives, R-Ky., Did not criticize President Donald Trump for green light attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday evening.
“It is not constitutional,” said Massie, responding to the social post of Trump’s truth announcing strikes on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan in Iran.
The bipartisan Resolution of war powers Was presented to the House of Representatives this week while strikes between Israel and Iran rage, and the world was held next to see if Trump would have struck.
Familiar sources have told Fox News Digital that the president of the Mike Johnson room, R-La, and the leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune, Rs.d., were informed of the strikes in advance.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a speech to a joint session of the Congress in Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025; The representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) (L) atauguards the inauguration of the president elected Donald Trump in the rotunda of the Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC (Left: Win McNamee / Pool / AFP via Getty Images; right: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
“Trump struck Iran without any authorization from the congress. We must immediately return to DC and vote on @reppthomasmassia and my resolution of war powers to prevent America from being dragged in another interminable war in the Middle East,” Khanna said.
This week, legislators sounded on the unconstitutionality of Trump hitting Iran without the approval of the Congress. Congress has the sole power to declare war on Article I of the Constitution.
The resolution of war powers aims to “withdraw the armed forces in the United States from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic State of Iran” and orders Trump to “end” the deployment of American troops against Iran without “declaration of war authorized or specific authorization for the use of military forces against Iran”.
While Trump announced his strikes against Iran – without the approval of the Congress – Khanna said that representatives should return to Capitol Hill to prevent a new escalation.
And in the upper room, the senator Tim KaineD-VA., Presented its own resolution of war powers before the bipartite duo of the house. While the resolution had gained speed with its colleagues, the momentum could be blocked due to the strikes. Its resolution is privileged, which means that legislators will have to consider it. The sooner could be voted on Friday.
President Donald Trump speaks with journalists while stealing on the Air Force One on the way to Calgary, Canada, at Joint Andrews, MD., Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP photo / Mark Schiefelbein)
Kaine argued in a statement that “the American public is extremely opposed to the United States war in the process of war in Iran”.
“And the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister admitted yesterday that the Israeli bombing had the Iranian nuclear program fell at least 2 or 3 years”, “he said. “So, what made Trump recklessly decide to rush and bomb today? A horrible judgment. I will push all the senators to vote so that they are for this silly war from the Middle East.”
This week in Capitol Hill, Massie, the conservative fiscal Hawk which refused to connect to “Big and Beautiful Bill” by Trump, built an improbable bipartite coalition of resistant legislators in the conflict of the Middle East.
“It is not our war. But if that was the case, the congress must decide such questions according to our constitution,” said Massie.
Massie, which Trump threatened as primary during the negotiations of the Megabill Gop Chamber, invited “all the members of the Congress to copardify this resolution”. Tuesday evening, the Bipartite bill had picked up 27 co-workers, including progressive representatives of “Squad” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
Through the political aisle, representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA., Pointed out her support, Write that Americans I want an affordable cost of living, safe communities and quality education “which does not enter another foreign war”.
The representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA., Leaves the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday March 25, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)
“This is not our fight,” Greene doubled on Saturday evening, before the social announcement of Trump’s truth.
The original bills of the bill also include progressive democratic representatives. Pramila Jayapal, Summer Lee, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, who called him unconstitutional For “Trump to go to war without a vote at the Congress”.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump would decide to bomb Iran in two weeks on Thursday.
“We finished our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran, notably Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan. All planes are now outside Iranian airspace. Account,” Trump said on Saturday evening.
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Israel launched pre -empty strikes on Iranian nuclear installations and military leaders last week, which the Islamic Republic considered a “declaration of war”. The strikes between Israel and Iran have been raging since, because Trump said he was planning to sign American strikes against Iran.
The Jewish state has targeted Iran’s nuclear capacities after months of missed negotiations in the region and has increased concerns about the development of Iran’s nuclear weapons.
But Ali Bahreini, Iranian ambassador to Geneva, said Iran “will continue to produce uranium enriched about for us for peaceful purposes”, like Israel, and now the United States, have expressed strikes against Iran’s nuclear capacities.
