💬 Opinion 6h ago · Fiona Harrigan

Congress Gave Away Its Authority To Declare War and Enabled Trump's Iran War

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Congress Gave Away Its Authority To Declare War and Enabled Trump's Iran War
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President Donald Trump and his administration have long claimed that he wants to chart a more restrained path for America's foreign policy. Before the 2024 presidential election, running mate J.D. Vance dubbed Trump the "candidate of peace." Trump broke with Republican Party orthodoxy during a 2016 presidential debate when he called the war in Iraq "a big, fat mistake." Yet a decade later, his administration is embroiled in a conflict that looks a lot like the one he decried.
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