Washington – The Senate on Friday voted for an effort to prevent President Trump from using more military force against Iran, as democratic rage is in the lack of details about the Recent Strikes at the country’s nuclear facilities.
The measure failed in a 47-53 vote, with the republican senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, voted with most Democrats in favor of the resolution, and the Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted with most Republicans against it.
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine de Virgínia introduced the Resolution of war powers Days before the United States bombed three central locations in the Iran Nuclear Program, seeking to force the President to obtain the authorization of the Congress before entering the conflict between Israel and Iran.
“This week’s events have shown that the war is too great to be sent to anyone’s decisions,” Kaine said on the Senate floor before the vote.
Since the measure was introduced, Mr. Trump announced a cessation of fire Among the opponents and they stated that the nuclear places of Iran were “forgotten” during the war of 12 days. On Friday, Mr. Trump said “would undoubtedly” consider Iran to bomb again if they had to enrich uranium at a level that affected the United States
But the anger of Democrats, including those who said that Iran should never be able to obtain a nuclear weapon, it has been lowered, as they say they have been left in the dark about U.S. military actions.
Has taken some Democrats to question if the Trump administration is cheating on the public about strikes, especially after a Initial classified evaluation It was found to establish the Tehran nuclear program for a month. In the meantime, Mr. Trump has said that the nuclear program was re -established “basically decades”.
The maximum intelligence officials Said Wednesday That new intelligence showed that the nuclear program had been “seriously damaged” and its “destroyed” facilities. It would take the “years” Iranians to rebuild the facilities, said CIA director John Ratcliffe, and director of National Intelligence Tullesi Gabbard. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, called him a “historically successful attack” in a pressure on Thursday.
The information classified for the Senate and the Chamber were originally programmed for Tuesday, the same day that the initial assessment was leaked. Officials reported the senators on Thursday afternoon and members of the house on Friday.
A White House official said on Tuesday that the Senate’s informative session was postponed due to “evolved circumstances as a result of recent positive news in the Middle East”.
After the information, some Democrats Fill in the doubt On the characterization of the administration of strikes and questioned the claims about the number of nuclear programs in Iran.
“I moved away from this informative session still under the belief that we have not forgotten the program,” Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, told journalists. “The President deliberately cheated on the public when he said the program was forgotten. It is true that there is still a significant capacity, meaningful teams that remain.”
Representative Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat found in the House Intelligence Committee, said that the information revealed in the informative session was “massively different from the one said in Congress during the last year, up to a month ago, both about Iranian capabilities and Iranian intent.”
Crow said he was not “convinced of this” when asked if Iranian nuclear facilities had been forgotten.
The leader of the minority of the chamber, Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, has been confronted with the lack of transparency and said that earlier this week the administration had not presented to Congress any proof that Iran represented an imminent threat that would require immediate military action.
But Jeffries did not reach a resolution to prevent Mr. Trump on the bombings. He and more than 120 Democrats voted with all Republicans to kill the measure, which was introduced by the Democratic representative in the Green of Texas, Tuesday.
Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the highest Democrat of the Chamber’s Intelligence Committee, also called into question the strike calendar.
“It is quite clear that there was no imminent threat to the United States,” Himes said. “There is always an Iranian threat for the world. But … I have seen nothing to suggest that the Iranian threat was radically different last Saturday than it was two Saturdays ago.”
Kaine’s resolution was a handful of similar efforts that want to reduce U.S. participation in Iran, although it is not clear if any will be successful in a congress that is closely controlled by Republicans.
Some Republicans who initially supported the resolutions, such as the representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, looks like he rests From forcing a vote whenever the cessation of the fire is maintained and the United States does not bomb more. And the President of the Chamber, Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, called irrelevant efforts Because Iran and Israel agreed to stop the fighting.
“It’s now a sort of look, right?” Johnson said Monday. “It seems quite silly right now and I hope they recognize it as such and put it in bed because it has zero possibility of passing anyway.”
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune I talked to The Wall Street Journal this week believes that Mr. Trump acted “perfectly within his authority” by hitting Iran.
“I don’t think there is any questions that the President has the legal authority and constitutionally to do what he did,” said the South Dakota Republican. “There are always questions about these things, but the previous presidents and the two political parties have acted similarly in circumstances where there have been aerial attacks in various places in the world where our national security interests dictated it.”
The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, and most Greater military conflicts In recent history, it has been launched under an authorization for the use of military force approved by Congress. But presidents have it acted periodically Without explicit permission of the legislators, included during the bombing of President Bill Clinton in Yugoslavia and President Barack Obama Trakes Air 2011 in LibyaNotes from the Congressional Research Service.
In announcing his support for Kaine’s resolution, Paul said that the congress was abdicating his constitutional responsibility, allowing a president to act unilaterally and warned that last week’s strikes could have unwanted consequences.
“Despite the tactical success of our strikes, they may prove to be a strategic failure. It is unclear if this intervention will fully reduce the nuclear aspirations of Iran or, in fact, if Iranians can conclude to double their efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon,” Paul said.
The opponents of the resolution argued that Mr. Trump acted within his constitutional authority and that the measure would restrict President’s ability to respond rapidly to a threat.
In an interview last week with the largest CBS News Garrett, Kaine acknowledged that his resolution could fail, but said he wanted his colleagues to be in the United States participation in another war.
“Everyone in the Senate should agree that this is a matter of so serious and important that we should not allow the war to begin without Congress having a debate throughout the North -American and Senate and House members who have to follow the registration in this regard,” he said.
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