Both the US House and Senate have turned down potential limits to President Trump’s decision-making ability in the US war with Iran.
The House vote was 219-212, while a Senate vote on a similar measure earlier in the week was 53-47.
Resolutions in both chambers wanted Trump to end the use of American military against Iran unless there was an official declaration of war or authorization of military force by Congress.
Senators Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran voted against the resolutions, as did Second District Congressman Derek Schmidt. Marshall called the resolution a “political ploy to work against the Administration’s military operations,” adding, “Our military executed a bold, necessary, and long-overdue strike aimed at eliminating the threat posed by the Iranian regime—a regime that has spent nearly 50 years chanting ‘Death to America,’ killing and maiming thousands of American soldiers and citizens, and relentlessly pursuing a nuclear weapon that threatens our very existence.”
Schmidt, meanwhile, says he is “convinced the president had ample legal authority to join this fight” and, while “engaging Congress sooner might have been prudent, Congress is now engaged.”
Moran has not issued a statement about his vote.
