House appears on track to defeat resolution curbing Trump's war powers in Iran

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

02/25/26 6:00 AM ET


The House appears set to sink legislation designed to curb President Trump’s use of military force in Iran, potentially lending the administration a boost as it escalates its threats against Tehran. The bipartisan war powers resolution, sponsored by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), aims to reassert Congress’s authority to wage war by requiring Trump to win congressional approval before launching any strikes against Iran.

But Massie, so far, is the only House Republican to say he’s supporting the resolution. And a small handful of Democrats — all of them close allies of Israel — are already lining up to oppose it. The combination sets the stage for the measure to fail in the Republican-controlled House, which would give Trump what amounts to a tacit authorization to conduct unilateral strikes as the president and other top officials signal that such an attack could be imminent.

“They’re probably a week away from having industrial-grade bombmaking material,” Steve Witkoff, a former real estate developer who now serves as Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, told Fox News on Monday.

Khanna, Massie and other supporters of the check on executive war powers maintain that they’re merely firming up the use-of-force authorities delineated by the Constitution, which explicitly grants Congress the power “to declare war.” “Trump officials say there’s a 90% chance of strikes on Iran. He can’t without Congress,” Khanna wrote last week on the social platform X.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5753315-trump-iran-military-force-resolution-fails/

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Every Republican who refuses to support this and regain their "check and balance" authority, needs to resign. What is the point of them being there getting paid off the taxpayer's dime and not fulfilling their roles?

[travelingthrulife]

1. They are all co-conspirators in this ongoing coup.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Whoever the Dems are

need to go. Any failure to oppose the Orange Child Rapists war mongering is collaboration.

[karynnj]

3. I am old enough to remember when Netanyahu told the UN

that Iran was weeks from having a nuclear bomb in 2012. Yet he was outraged that Obama did not inform him about all the delicate negotiations that led to the 2015 nuclear deal.

Trump took us out of that deal in his first term. However even by the time Trump bombed Iran, they had not tested a nuclear weapon. Yet, now after Trump claimed to have decimated their nuclear sites, Wilcoff, a NYC real estate mogul, is stating that they are a week from "industrial grade bomb making materials" to gin up why we need to act NOW.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. ...

But don't forget the tireless John Kerry who traveled many many tens of thousands of miles back and forth to carry out that "shuttle diplomacy" to get that agreement finalized only to see it basically torpedoed in a day, due to 45's "gunboat diplomacy".

[karynnj]

5. Kerry was amazing

He would have made an incredible President even with a Republican House and Senate. However, I agree with some that he made an even better diplomat as Secretary of State and later leading Biden's climate diplomacy.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Why do we need a House resolution to affirm standing law?

Trump doesn't have any war powers in Iran beyond what is allowed in the Constitution and the still-in-effect War Powers Act, which is federal law. Period.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "Why do we need a House resolution to affirm standing law?"

What has happened is that since the AUMFs for Iraq and Afghanistan were passed, Presidents were still using that authority to carry out military operations. But those AUMFs were FINALLY (after many years) REPEALED in the FY 2026 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) (signed Dec. 18, 2025).

So now we are in uncharted territory with 45 needing a new authority.

Here is a description about exactly what goes on with the "War Powers Act (Resolution) " -

War Powers Resolution: Expedited Procedures in the House and Senate

[bluestarone]

7. TSF has many pedofiles

MANY!

[denvine]

8. Those Dems should be primaried!

There is no room for defectors when it comes to curbing Trump's powers.

[mdbl]

9. Vote the GOP asses out of congress asap

They are worthless as a branch of government.