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US LAWMAKERS SET TO VOTE ON WAR POWERS AS IRAN CONFLICT WIDENS

  • NEWS Desk Global
  • 2 days ago
  • 1 min read

Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate were set to begin voting on Wednesday on a bipartisan ‌war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorized by Congress.

The latest effort by Democrats and a few Republicans to rein in President Donald Trump's repeated troop deployments, sponsors describe it as a bid to take back Congress' responsibility to declare ​war, as spelled out in the U.S. Constitution.


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