Congressional Backlash Over Unilateral Strikes on Iran

Following repeated unauthorized military strikes against Iranian targets, the House of Representatives has moved to impeach the President for bypassing Congressional war powers. These actions have sparked a constitutional crisis and urgent calls for legislative accountability.

1 policy, 2 posts·June 24, 2025 – March 5, 2026

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Key Points

The President conducted unilateral military strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities.
Rep. Jamie Raskin publicly demanded an immediate House session to address the lack of a formal declaration of war.
The House of Representatives officially tabled H.Res. 537, an impeachment resolution targeting the President.
The House will need to decide whether to move forward with committee hearings on the impeachment resolution.

Policy·Tue, Jun 24, 2025

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House Member Introduces Impeachment Resolution After President Orders Strikes on Iran Without Congress

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2 Social·5 days ago – Today

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Under the Framers’ design, only the Representatives of the people can exercise the solemn act of declaring war—not Donald Trump, not Secretary of War Hegseth, not Tulsi Gabbard. My Republican colleagues want to abdicate their own constitutional power for the sake of propping up Donald Trump’s reign of lawlessness and violence.

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The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war because the Framers insisted that the representatives of the people weigh all the vast implications. But now, desperate to distract from the spectacular failure of his illegal tariffs, the Epstein files, and spiraling inflation, the president who campaigned on keeping us out of regime-change ‘forever wars,’ like Iraq and Afghanistan, just launched unilateral military strikes against Iran without any Congressional declaration of war. Speaker Johnson must call us into session for a vote immediately.

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