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June 27, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Fury Over Iran Failings Just Got Worse. Take Note, Dems.
John Fetterman may vote with Republicans on the war authorization measure. This would only embolden Trump at a time when he is clearly growing more unhinged.
June 27, 2025
Grace Segers
Congress Won’t Act on the Iran Strikes. That Doesn’t Make Them Legal.
Regardless of how lawmakers react, experts say the president’s actions were unlawful.
January 8, 2025
Nicholas Slayton
Democrats Will Regret Not Stripping Trump’s Dangerous War Powers
Biden and Congress squandered a chance to end the legal underpinnings of the forever war. The president-elect will once again reap the powers afforded to him.
September 18, 2021
Jason Linkins
How Congress Created the
Peril
of Trump’s Harrowing Final Days
Bob Woodward’s new book reports that General Mark Milley feared Trump might attack China. Such a scenario is only possible because lawmakers ceded their war-making power to the executive branch.
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