"The president spent just three minutes of Tuesday's State of the Union address trying to explain why the need to act against a regime that had been a strategic foe for decades had suddenly become so urgent and whose nuclear facilities he claimed to have obliterated in previous strikes last June."
"Asked by NPR how much notice the Trump administration had given Congress, Kaine said: Zero. The evidence suggests that the secretary of state called the speaker of the House, and that was it. We did not receive notice. The White House knew that I had a war powers resolution scheduled for vote by the Senate early next week."
"The 1973 act passed in the wake of the Vietnam war and designed to rein in a president's ability to embark on military adventures without authorization demands consultation."
President Trump authorized military strikes against Iran on Saturday with minimal public justification and without proper congressional notification. During the State of the Union address, Trump devoted only three minutes to explaining the urgency of the action against Iran's nuclear facilities. The strikes violated the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional consultation and approval for military action. Unlike the extensive public campaign preceding the 2003 Iraq invasion, Trump's Iran strikes occurred with a sudden military buildup and no advance warning to Congress's key national security leaders. Senator Tim Kaine reported receiving zero notice and accused the administration of rushing military action to preempt a scheduled Senate vote on a war powers resolution.
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