Lawmakers call Trump's strike against Iran “unconstitutional”

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Ro Khanna and R-Ky of D-Calif. Thomas Massi (R-Ky).
“This is not constitutional,” Mussi said. Mossi responded to Trump's truth-educated social posts and announced a strike against Iran's Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.
Two parties War power resolution Amid the strike between Israel and Iran this week, the House of Representatives was introduced this week in the House, with the whole world watching to see if Trump will strike.
Familiar sources told Fox News Digital, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Rs.d.) both strike early.
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Donald Trump speaks at a joint Congress meeting at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on March 4, 2025. Rep. Thomas Massie (r-ky) (l) attended the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2025. (Left: Win McNamee/Pool/AFP via Getty Images; For: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“Trump attacked Iran without Congress' authorization. We need to go back to DC immediately and vote on @repthomasmassie and my war power resolutions to prevent the United States from being dragged into another endless Middle East war,” Karna said.
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This week, lawmakers strike Iran without Congress’s approval. Congress has the right to declare war Article 1 of the Constitution.
The war powers resolved to try to “evacuate U.S. armed forces from unauthorized hostilities of the Islamic State of Iran” and directed Trump to “terminate” deployment to Iran without “authorized declaration of war or specific authorization of military forces to declare war or specific authorization to Iran's authorization to Iran's authorization to Iran.”
When Trump announced a strike against Iran – without Congress' approval – Karna said deputies should return to Capitol Hill to prevent further escalation.
D-VA. Senator Tim Kaine introduced his own war power in the House of Lords ahead of the bipartisan duo in the House. Although the resolution has been thriving with his colleagues, momentum may stagnate due to the strike. His resolutions have privileges, which means that lawmakers must consider this. Friday is the earliest vote.

President Donald Trump spoke to reporters on his way from Calgary, Canada to the United Base in Andrews, Maryland, on late June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
“The American public has overwhelmingly opposed the U.S. war against Iran,” Kaine said in a statement.
“The Israeli Foreign Minister yesterday admitted that the Israeli bombing restored the Iranian nuclear program for at least 2 or 3 years,” he said. “So what made Trump Ruck decide to rush and bomb today? A horrible trial. I will urge all senators to vote on whether they are for the third idiot Middle East War.”
On Capitol Hill this week, Massie, the conservative Finance Hawks, refused to sign Trump's “Big and Beautiful Bills,” creating an unlikely bipartisan coalition of lawmakers that resists U.S. participation in the Middle East conflict.
“This is not our war. But if so, Congress must decide on such matters under our constitution.”
Trump threatened to invite major Massie to “all members of Congress to jointly sponsor the resolution” during the House Republican Grand International negotiations. By Tuesday night, the bipartisan bill had taken over 27 companions, including progressive “squad” member representatives.
Throughout the political aisle, R-Ga. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed support Write about that American Want affordable cost of living, safe communities and quality education, “don’t participate in another foreign war.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. Leaving the Capitol Hill Club after a House Republican Conference meeting held on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
“It’s not our fight,” Green doubled Saturday night, before Trump’s truth society announced.
The original co-sponsor of the bill also included progressive Democratic representatives. Pramila Jayapal, Summer Lee, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, who Call it unconstitutional “Trump fought without a vote in Congress.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that Trump will decide whether to bomb Iran within two weeks.
“We have completed a very successful attack on three Iranian nuclear sites, including Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan. All aircraft are now outside of Iranian space. At the main location of Fordo, all effective bombs are discarded. It's important,” Trump said Saturday night.
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Israel launched a preemptive strike last week against Iran's nuclear facilities and military leaders, a “declaration of war.” The strike between Israel and Iran has been criticized since then, as Trump said he was considering whether to sign a U.S. strike against Iran.
After months of failed negotiations in the region and increased concerns about Iran's development of nuclear weapons, Jewish states targeted Iran's nuclear capabilities.
But Iran's ambassador to Iran Ali Bahreini said Iran will continue to produce abundant uranium so that it is Israeli for peaceful purposes, and now the United States has issued a strike against Iran's nuclear energy.