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Cory Booker calls both parties 'feckless' for ceding war powers to Trump
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Democratic US senator Cory Booker has criticized both his own political party as well as its Republican counterpart for being "feckless" in ceding congressional war powers to Donald Trump, saying that their decision could embolden the president to unilaterally attack Cuba, North Korea and other countries.
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Democratic senators file war powers resolution to check Trump on Cuba
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U. S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval as they seek to force a vote on President Donald Trump's stated goal of a "takeover" of the Caribbean country.
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Why Congress rarely pushes back when presidents deploy military force
The White House released a video on Feb. 28 of President Trump discussing strikes on Iran. The White House/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
The Constitution gives Congress alone the power to declare war, but modern presidents have asserted broad authority to use military force.
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'A Congress Without Ambition': Lawmakers Give Trump Blank Check On War
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WASHINGTON - In ducking a vote on authorizing war against Iran this week, Congress ceded its constitutional responsibilities yet again, some lawmakers warned, empowering current and future presidents to launch large wars unilaterally, in a major break with the nation's founding principles.
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What does history and the Constitution say about a president's powers to go to war?
From the moment he announced a military strike in Iran, President Trump has called it a "war. " Watching missiles fly through the sky and explosions rocking Tehran, it certainly looks like a war.
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House to vote on curbing Trump's Iran war powers
Washington -- The House is set to vote Thursday on a measure to block President Trump from taking further military action against Iran without congressional support, a day after a similar effort fell short in the Senate.
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House to vote on Iran war powers resolution in a test of Trump's strategy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House is preparing to vote Thursday on a war powers resolution to halt President Donald Trump's attack on Iran, a sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.
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House to vote on Iran war powers resolution in a test of Trump's strategy
It's the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing the American people in wartime and all that entails -- with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president's unilateral decision to go to war with Iran.
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Senate rejects attempt to rein in Trump's power to wage war on Iran
Washington -- The Senate defeated a war powers resolution that sought to block President Trump from using further military force against Iran, rejecting a Democratic push to rebuke the president amid the administration's shifting justifications for the war and warnings about more American casualties to come.
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Senate rejects attempt to rein in Trump's power to wage war on Iran
Washington -- The Senate defeated a war powers resolution that sought to block President Trump from using further military force against Iran, rejecting a Democratic push to rebuke the president amid the administration's shifting justifications for the war and warnings about more American casualties to come.
