Congress debates war powers as Trump weighs military action against Iran

Legionships discuss the role that congress must play as the White House weighs its options in Iran.

Does the legislative body have a single authority to declare war, or should that power should be waived for the president?

It comes back and forth at a time when President Donald Trump is studying whether he will join Israel in its campaign against Iran or continue to push for a diplomatic end and return to the negotiating table to clarify a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic.

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Helping to ignite the arguments on the Capitol Hill is a pair of decisions in the Senate and the Council, which requires discussion and vote before using any force against Iran. Mandates are designed to place a check on Trump salad and reaffirm the Constitutional Authority of Congress.

Senators are divided on both sides of the corridor about whether they believe they have a single authority to delegate a strike against Iran or if Trump is able to do this according to his will. The prevailing argument is that the complete goal of supporting Israel is to prevent or obtain a nuclear weapon from establishing a nuclear weapon.

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Israel has succeeded in getting some pieces of infrastructure that was the key to that task, but it did not cause real damage to a very excellent fuel enrichment factory, and it may need help from the United States to break the rock layers that protect the site.

“The constitution says that it is absorbed to declare war, and the authority to declare war is only from Congress,” Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky, told Fox News Digital. “It cannot arise from the White House. There is no constitutional authority for the president to bomb anyone without requesting permission first.”

Senator Rand Paul speaks, R-Ky. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

The constitution divides the powers of war between Congress and the White House, giving legislators the only power to declare war, while the president acts as a major commander who directs the army.

Then came the law of war authorities for the year 1973, which sought to further define these roles and make sure that the president should give Congress a notice within 48 hours of deployment of forces that can only be deployed for 60 days. It is worth noting that Congress has not officially declared war since World War II.

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Paul said: “There is no argument about why he was unable to obey the constitution,” Paul said. “Now, my hope is not to do it, and its instincts will prevail to control the soul.”

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Senator John Kennedy did not agree.

“It is clear that both Congress and the president have a role that plays it,” he said. “But if you suggest, if the president comes to Congress, this decision is made first, then this is conditional on the year in which Congress wants to make a decision. Sometimes it takes months, and even years, to accomplish anything.”

Senator Tim Kane, D-VA. Speak with correspondents. (Reuters)

The majority leader of the Senate, John Thun, said RS.

Republicans in the Senate have found an unlikely ally among Senator Democrats John Vitirman, De Pa, who strongly called on Israel while his party hesitated.

Fetterman Fox News Digital told that he did not think that the strike on Iran was “the start of a war”, echoing the feelings of Thun that “we have a very specific task to destroy nuclear facilities. This is not a war. This is the necessary military … to destroy a nuclear facility.”

Senator Ron Johnson was told, p-Ois.

Johnson said: “I think it is a non -relevant point if President Trump decides to help Israel with some military measures with those bombs that are tired,” Johnson said. “It is good within the time frame that he brings under a kind of work in Congress.”

Senator Ron Johnson, p. He arrives at the hearing of the Internal Security and Government Affairs Committee in the Senate in the Diriksen Office building on April 3, 2025 (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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However, Senator Tim Kane, D-FA, who submitted the war authorities on Monday, believes that the measure is gaining momentum among his colleagues.

Kane Fox News Digital told that with the development of events, it made his “urgency” more clear. He also expected a Senate vote at some time next week. He said that some Republicans “want to be in the midst of hostilities with Iran.”

“But the interesting thing is that they did not provide a war license because their voters will say, are you broken?” He said. “Thus, they want to do this, but they do not want to do it themselves.”

When asked if this was a step to turn the blame elsewhere, Kane said: “They think it will do that, but he will not do it.”