Congressional Democrats will, once again, try to rein in President Donald Trump’s war with Iran this week — and this time, they believe there’s a pathway to success.
“Every day that Republicans stand in the way of Democratic efforts to end this war,” Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Thursday, “is another day that they own the chaos, the bloodshed and the economic volatility that has resulted.”
Top Democrats in both the House and Senate say they will force votes this week on war powers resolutions aimed at cutting off hostilities in Iran. They only need a handful of Republicans to join them to constrain the president over the conflict, though Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in both chambers if Trump vetoed a war powers resolution — which he almost certainly would do.
In that practical sense, Democrats face long odds. But on a political level, the GOP is increasingly tying its midterm fate to a conflict growing more unpopular every week.
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