The War Powers Act does NOT give the President 60 days to start a war on his own. It allows limited action without Congress only if the United States is under attack.
https://x.com/RepMikeLevin/status/2050240891839807632
Washington Republicans spent two months telling you the President had 60 days before Congress needed to weigh in on the Iran war. Today is that deadline, and now that it’s here, Pete Hegseth walked into the United States Senate and invented a bogus legal argument because the real law offers him nothing.
He’s claiming the ceasefire “paused the clock” on congressional authorization. Here’s why that’s complete BS.
This argument has never been made by any administration of either party in the 50 years since this law was written. It has no precedent because it has no basis.
More importantly, Trump never had 60 days to wage this war without Congress in the first place. That’s not what the Constitution says, it’s certainly not what the War Powers Act says, and it’s not backed by any serious reading of the law.
The War Powers Act does NOT give the President 60 days to start a war on his own. It allows limited action without Congress only if the United States is under attack. Perhaps Secretary Hegseth needs a reminder here that we bombed Iran first, not the other way around.
Republicans who spent two months hiding behind the 60-day clock were wrong on the law and used it to avoid calling out an illegal war. Hegseth is just looking for a way out and just made it worse by building a new lie on top of an old one.
A law you don’t want to follow is still a law, and no amount of creative testimony from Pete Hegseth changes that.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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