Trump will veto the measure, but political pressure to end the war will increase. 
War Powers Act of 1973
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 is a federal law designed to limit the U.S. president’s ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad without congressional approval
Key Provisions
- 48-Hour Notification: The president must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying military forces into hostile situations or areas where hostilities are imminent.
- 60-Day Limit: Troops may only remain in the conflict zone for 60 calendar days without formal congressional authorization or a declaration of war. [1, 2]
- 30-Day Withdrawal: The president receives an additional 30 days to safely withdraw the forces if Congress does not authorize the action. [1]
Historical Context
- Vietnam War: Frustration over undeclared military expansions into Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos prompted lawmakers to reclaim constitutional war-making checks.
- Nixon Veto Override: Congress passed the statute over President Richard Nixon’s veto in November 1973 after arguing that the executive branch had overreached its commander-in-chief powers.
No Filibuster
- Expedited Procedures: The War Powers Resolution contains built-in statutory rules designed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking a vote on troop deployments.
- Simple Majority (51 Votes): If a member introduces a concurrent or joint resolution to direct the President to remove U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities, these expedited rules allow the resolution to bypass the filibuster and move directly to a floor vote, requiring only a simple majority to pass the Senate.
- The Veto Hurdle: While these resolutions can pass Congress with a simple majority, presidents routinely veto them. To successfully override a presidential veto and force a withdrawal, Congress ultimately needs a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers.
Forcing a War Powers resolution through a divided Congress against a sitting president would be an extraordinary and rare political event.
When public sentiment is overwhelmingly anti-war, it shifts the political math completely. It forces lawmakers who would normally protect their party’s president to face severe pressure from voters back home, turning a standard partisan debate into a massive showdown.
While a War Powers resolution is the direct tool to command a withdrawal, a successful majority vote signals to the president that Congress is highly likely to use its ultimate leverage next: stripping away military funding in the upcoming budget.
Some Republicans Issue a New Call on Trump’s War With Iran
The New York Times reports Some Republicans Issue a New Call on Trump’s War With Iran: End It Now
While Mr. Trump is talking about escalating the war if he cannot strike a deal with Iran, Republicans in competitive races are losing patience with the fighting.
Representative Ashley Hinson, the party’s Senate nominee in Iowa, called at a news conference Friday for an “immediate” end to the war, saying she was “incredibly frustrated” by rising costs. Former Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee in the Senate race in Michigan and an early cheerleader for the war, released an advertisement on Monday in which he declared that it “needs to end.”
Brinker Harding, a Republican trying to win a swing Nebraska congressional district that has been in his party’s hands for nearly a decade, said in an interview Friday that “we need to bring the war in Iran to a close as quickly as possible.” And Senator Jon Husted, who is working to fend off the Democratic former senator Sherrod Brown, told reporters on Friday that “we got to bring the war to a close” — even as he added that any resolution should be on “acceptable” terms.
Still, many Republicans have been cautious about crossing Mr. Trump, fearing a backlash that could alienate Republican voters they need in November. Despite Ms. Hinson’s and Mr. Husted’s calls for an end to the war, they recently voted against resolutions to rein in Mr. Trump’s ability to carry on the conflict.
Some of the Republicans seen as having the best chances to defy a difficult political environment have been most vocally critical of the war.
Mr. Rogers’s reversal in Michigan was among the most striking. A longtime foreign-policy hawk and once a chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Rogers was an early supporter of the war. In May, Mr. Rogers told WDIV-TV that he viewed the war as a “win-win-win” for Americans.
But in his new ad, set at a supermarket, he acknowledged groceries cost “too much.” He also said that ending the war would swiftly bring down energy costs — a view that is generally not shared by economists.
In Iowa, a conservative-leaning state whose agricultural economy has been hit hard by rising fertilizer and diesel prices, Ms. Hinson was not alone in splitting with the president over the war. Two House Republicans in tough races, Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, voted this month to end the war or require explicit congressional authorization for it to move forward.
They were joined by five other Republicans, including two in competitive races: Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Tom Barrett of Michigan. Republicans still overwhelmingly voted to support the conflict, despite polling that suggests less than a third of likely voters in the midterms think Mr. Trump made the right decision in going to war. Ms. Hinson, a congresswoman, did not back the measure, but spoke out against the war in the days that followed.
A similar measure failed in the Senate last week, though Senator Susan Collins of Maine supported it. Ms. Collins, a centrist, has long opposed the war. She is seeking a sixth term in a Democratic-leaning state, and some polls show her in the lead or running roughly even with Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee.
Looking Ahead
On June 23, 2026, the U.S. Senate voted 50–48 to adopt a House-passed measure directing the administration to halt military actions in Iran. Because the War Powers Act’s expedited procedural rules bypass the filibuster, the resolution was able to pass with a simple majority.
Bipartisan Defections: Four Republican senators—Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Bill Cassidy—broke ranks to vote with the Democrats.
One Democrat, John Fetterman, voted against the resolution.
Although the Senate and the House passed the resolution, it never went to Trump’s desk for a veto because Congress passed the bill as a Concurrent Resolution rather than a Joint Resolution.
After the Midterms, expect a joint resolution.
Trump will have to defend the war to a nation sick of these wars and more Republicans will be willing to stand up to Trump.
2027 is more of a sure thing when Democrats take the at least a few seats and likely the Senate.
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I’m no democrat, but I’ll be voting democrat. The republicans need to be punished, and Trump needs to be thwarted.
When was the last time anyone voted FOR someone? It’s always voting against someone.
A lot of US casualties in the Iran war being hidden from the American people. The latest example are the wounded from recent Iran attacks.
https://archive.vn/dhImE
Congress needs to repeal the current WPR and replace with something much shorter and more precise:
1/ Allow defensive actions for at most 14 days which must cease entirely unless conditions in (2) are met
2/ Hostilities may only continue if Congress a) formally declares war or b) passes an authorization for the use of force specific to the action in question
3/ All AUF are to expire after 90 days at which time US forces must withdraw unless a new AUF is passed
No more forever wars – Congress is forced to participate and no more Presidents doing whatever the f they want as long as they want.
I’d go further: the President may only use US military forces if their is an attack within US national borders and can only use US military forces on foreign soil with an explicit declaration of war by Congress. IOW, the President can defend the US within its borders until Congress declares war.
Hmm. That sounds positively constitutional.
OK, Mish, I would REALLY enjoy seeing you begin to Frame these so-called Battles with a different LENS. That lens is that Wars are fought MORE about MAKING CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS A SHIT-LOAD of MONEY. That money flows into the hands of the BRIBED MEMBERS that sway votes.
Look, you can easily estimate how much money flows into the hands of those Government Fucks that a good part of their take-home pay can be identified as:
“TAKE-HOME LOOT.” ALL of Congress is NOT there to represent us which is what Voting is supposed to be all about, right?
IF THAT were the goal, representing “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” (meaning the MASSES WHO DO NOT MATTER), there would be less lip-flapping about what they INTEND TO DO which is carefully orchestrated behind closed doors and away from “PRYING EYES” which was originally called “THE PRESS.”
The only thing that the MAINSTREAM PRESSES now is their lips up against Congressional Assholes, literally.
OH, DID NOT mean to flatter anyone here. 😧
Anyone else here sick to death of the Bullshit spewing from those northern Assholes located on the heads of those people we call “REPRESENTATIVES.”
The “Southern Assholes” (Located between our Butt Cheeks) are for Bodily Waste elimination.
The “NORThern Assholes” (located BELOW our Facial Cheeks) are for Waste ABSORPTION by willing believers AKA: VOTERS. THEY SUCK IT ALL IN LIKE BREAKFAST CEREAL, sweet and full of additives and coloring.
Did Trump write this? Lots of random capitalizations IMO = illegigible
More exclamation points would make it more TRUE!!!!!!!!
I think the molester and thief is taking most of it. I hope the american people will be able to claw some of it back
There’s nothing more bipartisan than war, so I expect a lot of vacuous semantics been shuffled on paper, nothing more.
bingo. not a cunt hair difference in party in power as commander in chief, nor congress when it comes to pax amerikan war mongering the past century plus. at least back to 1898.
Don’t kid yourself. A Team D Congress will at most do a repeat of 2007-2009. That is, gripe about process, insist that they could do a better job fighting the war, but not question the war itself.
Like the Front Row Kids they are, Democrats and liberals love arguments over tone and process.
“The second level is about the Democrats, which is a political party few people really understand. The most important thing to get about the older generation of Democrats is they are fundamentally uninterested in the real world. They have a form of politics, but it is unrelated to governing. It is about validating each other as savvy and polite, while deferring to objective experts. That’s why they love ‘independent’ agencies and asking for studies and vague regulations.”
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-with-paramount
No problem, they’re being replaced by the DSA. Which is interested in their real world.
Note how the DNC fights tooth and nail.
Obama expanded the republican war when he got into office. Obama made bush look restraint. Obama tortured a lot of innocent people.
Why do you think congress, those evil war mongers would stop war? Where in history has the democrats ended a republican war voluntarily, i.e. not being at the precipice of defeat and simply being the part that signed the papers?
One thing is for sure; the democrats are going exponentially increase the war in Ukraine. The democrats love their necro politics.
Also expect a lot of bank and PE bailouts; the dems love rich people even more then war.
YES, I AGREE. We were talking ONLY of the “EYE RAN” War, which is how most Nincompoops pronounce it.
Ukraine has rained wheel barrels of cash down on Congress. THAT IS A CASH COW for the “Leadership” which we never hear from, either “SIDE.” Europe is also on the inside.
I know German Military Interests, big family Money, wrapped up in it. My Pal lives here in Portugal and he gave me an ear full of info that I cannot share here.
The EUROPEAN INTERESTS (THEIR MIC) are itching to get a bigger piece of the Ukraine War’s Cash Flows.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is an American lobbying group that advocates for a strong political and military relationship between the United States and Israel.
One in which we defend Israel and they do nothing for us.
More correctly, AIPAC buys members of Congress who then vote to give billions of dollars to Israel
yes since epstein israeal gets more of our money than any other country and they have free healthcare. america first right after epstein I mean israeal
You mean when the IDF sunk the USS Liberty, stole our technology to build the bomb, leaked intelligence documents to the PRC and the USSR?
Zionists, I welcome your retorts.
Zionists rarely want to debate, as they know the facts are not on their side. Their clear preference is to spread their talking points and censor and discredit anyone who disagrees with them. AIPAC helps to facilitate that goal.
This is absolutely hilarious. Not a single one of the Republicans intends to do anything about the Iran war (except supporting it). These are just sternly worded statements to fool their voters.
If they meant anything, they are free to act now. FWIW, a large number of Dems also don’t intend to change anything regarding Iran or Palestine. They vote for resolutions knowing it will not have any effect on the US policies.
The real test will come if we have a Dem president in 2029 and a D trifecta. My prediction is that not much will change regarding Israel even then with a couple of AIPAC Ds voting against majority of Ds. There will be a lot of noise but nothing will materially change.
The US government is a captive government at this point. It can’t take any action that Israel doesn’t approve.
Like how Obama ended the wars in 2008?
Exactly. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
bush was president in 2008 but keep rewriting history
technically correct, but remember W the dumber let obama take over the reigns. poor george was a useful idiot for his father and cheney and rummy……….
Senior was a lot of things but he didn’t tell his son to invade Iraq to oust Saddam. In fact, he was a critic of the second gulf war as was Skowcroft.
The honor of advocating for war in Iraq for the second time goes to a broad list of neocons such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Feith, Perle, Libby, Bolton, etc., but the main advocate was Junior himself. He had to earn his spurs after all.
The GOP 2000 platform at the convention called for regime change and who was the candidate that year? The question is rhetorical. It is meant to emphasize that W wanted to go to war against Iraq long before 9/11 and WMD. He like many presidents has been a stooge for Bibi and to wag to the dog for domestic support of his war on terror.
Powell too was a proponent, though not a neocon.
Obama was elected in 2008. Way to miss the point.
bwaaaahhhhhh. exactly. obama was a great charlatan. just did what the voters wanted.
Obama didn’t end any wars. He did start a few more, however.
I need some of that Good Shit you are smoking, you poor soul. THE DEMS AND REEPS are in lock-step! Both sides’ leadership are slurping up the MIC money, the loot that everyone (but Voters) get a piece of. WARS=MONEY.
Come on Americans: wake the EFF up about why wars are “fought.” $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
It’s going to be awful. Democrats will be swept in, impeach Trump but not have enough votes to remove him. He will refuse to leave and we’ll have a wild ride of madness and incompetence for two years while the nation tries to compete with China and Russia. It Will Get Very Bad
I think the possibility of Trump being impeached AND convicted in the Senate will be very real if Team Red gets destroyed in the midterms. Republicans thinking about the 2028 election will have to decide whether they want to go down with the Trump ship or be able to tell voters they helped take him down.
Nothing would please me more than this attention-economy grifter-maniac being slapped down, legally. Then, though, beware the next set of counter-righteous triumphalist ascendant maniacs, and their excesses. Stupidly overdone “liberal” soul-crushing is a thing, too.
trump will give blanket pardons to his entire family. like biden. he could easily abscond with trillions, too. the weasels in MICC and treasury would help.
Sounds like dramatic improvement over the current conditions.
Dems did rope in a lot of Nixon stuff in the 70s. It can and does happen. That doesn’t change a lot of persistent bad things noted in comments here, but it does redress some imbalances. I’m not saying other imbalances don’t emerge. My favorite government in this respect is divided, so there is at least someone to call out either side’s excesses. Yes, it is gridlocked, which has good and bad effects. But for now it is better than the alternative. I think James Madison’s contribution to the Constitution had all this very much in mind. Factions are selfish, people are selfish, and there was a brilliant attempt to address that, and reach some rough harmony and forward motion.
And D voters should look in the mirror and remember how they helped us get here: “blue no matter who” is a prescription for policy failure for you, even if occasionally your team wins — which they didn’t even do 2 out of 3 times against trump.
Yes, Bernie or RFK would’ve wiped the floor with trump, in 2016 or 2024. They’re still swamp creeps. But they would’ve trounced Trump.
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”. This applies to voting too. Accept kakistocratic candidates like Iraq architect Biden or pothead Kamala and you will get them — or the opposing candidate — and all the bad shit either piles on.
So, “centrist” D’s voters, stand up and give MAGAts and yourselves an equally loud round of applause.
You are blaming Democrats for Trump? Give me a break.
Yes I am.
You guys race each other to the bottom.
remember when Obama surged 100k amerikan troops into afghanistan when he took over. so he wouldn’t look like a wimp to the MICC. then he firebombed libya for no good reason. col ghaddafi was reported to have been trying to have a pan african currency backed by gold. probably one of the reasons for obama war crime in libya. the amerikan people are the warmongers. so they elect warmongers. democracy works. always has.
CJW: it is a UNIPARTY.
I would bet that you “VOTE??” I would guess that you BELIEVE their Campaign Promises.
ONLY LOCAL POLITICS can be (barely) swayed, so I get involved with that shit when we are “home.” We have two homes, one in Portugal and one in ” ‘Merica.”
I remove the “A” from America because it infers good grades as it was 55 years ago for me when I went to Grade School.
‘Merican Politics are all smoke and mirrors and not even a three-ring Circus which WOULD BE POSSIBLY entertaining if they had a REAL ring “Master.” NO ONE KNOW who steers that Stinking Hellhole that they call “America.”
My only news Source is Mish’s Blog.
What are the biggest advantages to limiting your news sources to one? Asking for some friends.
Biden gets some blame if he had mentored Kamala or made a better choice instead of letting his ego win Dems win and bernie would have beat trump in 2016 and 2024 Hillary has some blame in 2016 she should not have had the party wrapped up before the primaries.
If Obama had ended the two wars he inherited, didn’t start the Libyan and Syrian wars, had arrested and tried in a court of law the banksters that partially caused the Great Recession, offered Medicare for All as part of Obamacare, didn’t bailout the banksters and offered real assistance to those homeowners through no fault of their own were bankrupted and lost their homes, Trump would never have seen the light of day or had any justification to run.
Foolishly, many Americans thought Trump was the antidote to what ailed America only to find out that he was and is a symptom of what is wrong with America.
Americans also thought Obama was the antidote to W. People need to look in the mirror.
The Obama presidency will be known as a failed presidency after reviewing his accomplishments and failures in fifty years. He campaigned on one America as if if he were Lincoln when in fact what was wrong with America wasn’t the 1850s but the 1920s.
Do you forget that they always have the false flag tactic to rally people behind the flag. Also, why do you think that Dems won’t support wars next year, when it was Wilson with WWI, Roosevelt with WWII, Truman with Korea and nuked Japan, and Johnson with Vietnam. Besides, the reason for a distractive war is growing, not shrinking.
I think you are looking at idiotic reasons to make excuses for this idiot.
No, I do not think Democrats will support the war because 80% of the US doesn’t, only MAGA idiots.
I don’t think Scot was making excuses for Trump. He’s saying that there are enough Dems (Schumer, Jeffries) who support the wars to keep them going. That may or may or may not be true regarding our war on Iran. It’s certainly true of our war on Russia.
I have no idea why you thought I was making excuses for Trump, as there are NO excuses for being in Ukraine or Iran.
Trump ran on staying out of these endless Neocon-initiated wars, while the Dems supported being in Ukraine, which is why Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol, and other Neocons supported Kamala.
The majority of Americans do NOT support the wars, just like the majority of Israeli’s DON’T support Netanyahu and the majority of Ukrainians do NOT support Zelenskyy, but what say-so do citizens have in any of these wars?
CONgress is owned by Neocons and the Israeli lobby. If you think that the Dems will not fall in line with NATO and Israel, you have not been paying attention.
The Dems are doing what is necessary to take back Congress, just like Iran is doing. Both have miscalculated, as the Dems will support more aggressive military and socialistic actions that will make stagflation worse, ensuring they are wiped out in 2028.
Enemy fire, laundry fires, faked patrols, and fragging end wars.
“Leaks” by regime operatives, political pressure, legislative action, and protests don’t. They’re used as narrative to bury a military “L” under political issues in order to maintain the aura of invincibility. It’s a hard sell to maintain a protection racket or raise young capitalists, tout enlightened self-interest, and then ask them to volunteer as cannon fodder.
Vietnam: the mutiny and the intractability ended it. The Pentagon Papers were the story they told during the exit (2 years after internally concluding they lost the war), so they could sell the next generation of recruits with “Be All that You Can Be” or “It’s Not a Job. It’s an Adventure”.
Preempting mutiny (fragging abroad, rioting at home) was also a reason for the civil rights acts. Would be interesting to study the amount of excrement in elites’ pants after Muhammad Ali’s speech on the courthouse steps and refusal to serve (tip of the iceberg, risk of contagion) relative to MLK’s marches and speeches.
By now, everyone should understand the primary business of our government is not your betterment. What is it then? Looks to me like “war is the health of the state” is true. Is it so surprising that the primary business of a large imperial government is war? Every “peace candidate” in history simply lies, manages the existing wars, and stages if not starts the next. Everything else revolves around the primary business.
The role of government is to create an environment for prosperity. If the government is able to provide that environment it is up to citizens to create their own prosperity. Unfortunately, government is only doing a mediocre job of creating that environment and a lot of citizens expect the government to spoon feed them.
The role of government is to serve oligarchs.
Agree the role /should/ differ from what it is, which is where I agree with Feral Finster.
Perhaps I should have said “the real role, the unspoken role of governments…..“
Truth
It is naive to suggest cutting funding to the military. Just naive.
what difference would it make? The US has a $1 trillion military budget and it can’t take down Iran, a country with an $8 billion military budget. Who is being naive in this scenario?
And how will did flushing billions down in Afghanistan work out?
To defeat the US military empire, China just needs to cut off rare earths and Iran needs to cut off the oil for pennies on the dollar.
Budget cuts don’t need to be permanent, only until Trump leaves office.
I believe it would a temporary defunding. Long enough to force the administration out of Iran. Once they were out funding would resume and I doubt the administration would be stupid enough to go back in.
Indeed, there’s not great boondoggle in DC.
If Congress wanted to stop this war all they have to do is cut funding to the military. That’s it, everything else is a dog and pony show. Like I said, there will be Oscar winning performances of democrats being ‘outraged’ by the war and feigning trying to stop it, pretending they can’t do anything but they can, they just won’t.
This will lead to the next phase of this and is already being talked about.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/politics-and-elections/karl-rove-says-republican-party-is-being-taken-over-by-nazis/
Longtime Republican political operative Karl Rove said his party is being taken over by “Nazis” and railed against the moral failings of U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton during a one-on-one interview at the Texas Tribune Festival over the weekend.
MAGA will eventually turn into Make Adolf Great Again and a “purge” of a particular group of people from American institutions is likely. It’s literally a repeat of 1929 Germany.
Ironically, far left dems and far right repubs are uniting in their hatred of a particular group of people, it’s all over the internet if you’re paying attention on popular YT personalities and podcasters.
Sad that it has come to this but one of the many reasons to have an exit strategy.
>> far left dems and far right repubs are uniting in their hatred of a particular group of people,
Warlords / oligarchs? Whom?
Do you mean all “far-left” dems and all “far-right” repubs? Or are you smearing people like me unfairly? Please don’t do that, MPO.
>> MAGA will eventually turn into Make Adolf Great Again
Well, George Keenan, Operation Paperclip grandkids, Ursula VDL, and a cast of oligarchs succeeded in creating a united western Europe. And this coalition of warlords and hapless serfs is actively sieging Moscow in pursuit of its natural resources. Your prediction describes the present.
You have to be pretty obtuse to not know what is going on but here’s a hint. It’s a 25 minute video and you may need to watch it multiple times to deconstruct all the blatant and subtle ideas in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y58ZTGHifnw
After you watch that video, watch any of Tucker’s videos and become enlightened. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe setup an AI to provide you with daily or weekly summaries so you can see the pattern better.
So what? He is an unelected nobody, to most Americans.
tucker? bwwahhhhhh. he’s been a con man since his bow tie days decades ago. but i admit he does know how to tell us what we want to hear. tucker just pivoted away from the donald now that our fearless leader is a beached whale and losing his power………
The problem with people who have an Organ Grinder with a Monkey is they work their way up to a Gorrilla with a Pipe Organ.
1929?…1933
ludicrous. hitler was a flash in pan who didn’t even last 15 years. we are more akin to the roman republic. our people keep voting for never ending world wide wars. democracy works. the ancient greeks and romans explained this. we have been nonstop war mongering since at least 1898. the people here have the power to vote. but the people here love the never ending world wide warmongering. PS, i know you understand the world. take out a globe and put an amerikan flag where we have military bases. from FL to germany to mideast to our bitch colony israel, to far east. we will go the way of the romans. the nazis were a flash in the pan. hat tip to the USSR for killing north of 80% of the nazis on battlefields.
Yes we will eventually get to place where both the far left and the far right will realize that the billionaire epstein class has to go. then the middle will hopefully see the light. Trump success is because he sold the less educated on blaming the swamp and the brown people he misdirected the pain people were in from the real culprits –having the billionaires take too much of the pie and from his butties from the island who are the real culprits. and own the swamp
All the lame duck senate has to do stop the Iran War is when taking up the Continuing Resolution after the senate reconvenes after the election is is not fund the Iran War. The DOD is already robbing Peter to pay Paul to keep America’s fastest disapproval of any war in its history going in W. Asia.
When the new congress reconvenes in January and assuming the president signed the CR to keep the government running till ? the new congress can end funding permanently by not bringing it up for consideration
Will the senate or the new congress have the balls?
Congress should never had passed the Impoundment nor the War Powers Acts when there were charlatans in the courts and the executive branch advocating for the Unitary Executive Theory back then.
The Constitution clearly, unequivocally, and categorically states the declaration of war and the power of the purse are vested solely in the US Congress.
Providing wiggle room to any president was begging for a constitutional crises.
“Will the senate or the new congress have the balls?”
Unfortunately, the answer is Probably Not. But there is hope, which is something!
https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4613090/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-signs-directive-to-defend-2026-elections-from-for/
Wow, glad to know Hegseth will do everything possible to keep us safe from foreign election interference, as well as from election interference by people who look or act foreign or have foreign names or ideas
Your link is another example of Trump, Project 2025 authors, the Federalist Society, the Epstein Class, the Zionists, fascistic oligarchs, and those that have craved a militaristic, paternal, Old Testament ideological vision of America merging of interests.
The American people were warned on January 6, 2021 what Trump wanted to do but his organizers then were too incompetent to execute.
Trump is not only a symbol of what is wrong with America, he is also a tool for the fascistic elites to implement their toxic ideas on the US then the world if given the opportunity.
The American people can thank themselves, the corrupt Democrats, corrupt labor, and anyone else that didn’t listen to George Carlin, MLK, Fannie Lou Hamer, Abraham Herschel, Thoreau, Twain, et al – all American prophets.
A prophet is never honored in their homeland.
yes that is why we need to move the pendulum way to the we need to some how stop the billionaire epstein class from owning the government. I was a republican for many years but now after spending some time in other countries I am a democratic socialist. When I had never left America I could not see what I can see now. Once the blinders are removed one sees from a different perspective
No. It won’t happen. There will be enough “rotating villains” in the donorCRAT Party to keep the war going.
How many “rotating villain” Senators do you want? 2? 3? 5? 8? You’ll get as many as are needed!
If they are somehow forced by extreme circumstances to end the Iran war, the donorCRATs would want a major ramping up of the proxy war against Russia in exchange for that.
There’s not gonna be a new congress. You are nieve if you don’t think it is at least a possibility.
We are in nazi Germany now just before the rise of Hitler.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/thiels-antichrist-confession-if-youre
I really think it is closer to Mussolini’s Italy. It may end the same way for the dictator.
That’s why Trump is saying Iran war will end after midterm election and oil price will drop like a stone.
“People are crazy, times are strange. I’m locked in tight, but I’m out of range. I used to care, but things have changed.” Funny, how the poets and songsters seem to be able to call the future, is it not? The USA assault-war against Iran is the dumbest war in all of human history (maybe), as it has done nothing except unify Iran (which was beginning to seriously challenge the current local government), and drive up prices in USA, so that Americans suffer. It also depletes US weapons and military capability. It is so stupid, so brain-beatingly unwise, that it boggles the mind of any rational analyst. It’s human comedy of the most tragic.
There is absolutely no benefit at all to USA, despite the idiotic costs and lunatic nonsense that the Trumpers and Israel-supporters spout. But it goes on, and on, and on, with bombing, naval blockades, and media-stimulated false hostility. The proud and noble US Navy is made to look like abusive gangster thugs, and USA itself looks like a drunken bully murdering people in their homes, only celebrating weddings.
It’s the most shockingly stupid and grotesque action taken by USA, since the very
founding of the American Republic.
Interesting how it just continues and continues, and America is made to look like a dangerous criminal psychopath, on the World stage.
Now, just who benefits from this? Ask that simple question. And take a hard look at the poltroons involved in the current Administration. Is is not clear, what is happening?
So what?
People suffer. So what?
Trump wins.
Trump’s family wins.
Trump’s friends, billionaire pals win
MICC wins.
Trump didn’t personally bankrupt but his casinos filed for bankruptcy although his bond holders, employees, share holders suffered.
That’s called Win, Win, Win and Win strategy.
Crude oil supplies at 45-year low
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6015652-us-crude-supplies-45-year-low-iran-war/
It is of benefit to everybody around the globe when the US is made to look incompetent, ineffective, weak, and above all, without military capability.
no it is really not. America was something Bush’s stupid war and now Trumps even stupider war. the Tariffs, threatening friends and praising dictators, taking over countries — Now America is making it worse for the free world. But the blinders are off as well
Trump is beneficial to certain oligarch classes. They are the only ones who count. Not peons like us.
Since pacifying the masses is cost-effective, Trump’s main function is to put on a show to accomplish that. If he can attract enough votes, the illusion is most cost-effectively maintained. GOP was rich people but needed plebe votes to maintain that illusion, so FOX and Limbaugh and Trump were born.
a clown show
The AIPAC contingent in congress might be slimmed down by a couple of members. But you can be sure all the important committee chairs will be held by AIPAC drones.
I can’t see Israel allowing Iran to be left as it is – wounded but not dead or even dying, even if Netanyahu is ousted. This is their last chance to get the US to finish the job. I think they expect Trump to finish the job by the end of the year, come what may. The AIPAC democrats would love that since it would allow them to avoid voting to stop the war. Trump might even be convinced that one more all out offensive on Iran before the election could lead to a situation he could call “victory” and carry over to the election results.
Unless Iran’s economy completely collapses and the people turn on their minders I don’t see it dying. Israel’s involvement just makes it worse because then it’s a holy war and the Iranians will support that fight. Perhaps after the elections the holy leaders will have done their damage and be more amenable to a peace deal but on their terms. Taco and the ayatollahs will have to word it so they each look like they won. Dictators can never admit defeat. There’s still the uranium though. Maybe Taco will just let Israel keep bombing those sites. Their government needs a bogeymen to keep the war machine oiled.
The US will likely go nuclear, once the midterms are over and the voters no longer get a say.
Whatever it takes to win, that’s what America voted for
Then Iran, in many respects, wins. Then what?
Pres. Trump broke some principle of realistic planning.
How convenient. Why can’t the cowards act now as it is desperately needed?
Agree.
They defer action while raising campaign contributions that they’ll spend on themselves, their family, and friends.
Johnson released congress and they went home until after the mid terms so they would not impeach Hegseth. Congress will not be back until after the mid terms.