In a press conference in New York today, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said Democrats in the upper chamber would force a vote on a war powers resolution to limit the administration’s military campaign in Iran when Congress returns from recess next week.
Earlier, the Senate’s top Democrat called Donald Trump a “military moron” on social media.
Schumer noted that, despite the two-week ceasefire, the cost of the war, and the effect on gas prices, has made the US “worse off today than we were when [Trump] started it”.
“If he restarts this war we will be in even worse shape. We must pass our War Powers Resolution to end this war for good,” Schumer wrote.
Ah, Chuck, you useless dumpster of a man. You’re only five weeks late on this one.
Next week. Next week is fine. No hurry.
It’s actually 21 days early. Trump had 60 days before the war powers vote could be held, and this started on Feb 28.
Edit: I can’t math.
Sixty days from Feb 28 is April 29. If we’re pretending Congress is absolutely incapable of doing anything until 60 days have elapsed, Chucklefuck is actually planning on being two weeks early.
I can’t math, apparently.
That policy has never been anything other than unconstitutional bullshit, no matter what excuses anyone makes to “justify” it.
It’s actually completely constitutional because it enforces Congress’s constitutional right to decide when to send the nation to war.
The argument against the constitutionality of the act is that it’s a limit on the president’s role as the commander and chief of the US armed forces.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear: I didn’t mean needing Congress to vote on a war is unconstitutional; I meant letting the President have a unilateral 60 days instead of zero is unconstitutional.
The requirement should be that the Congressional vote must occur before even a single shot is fired.
Not every military action is an action of war. There are situations where rapid troop involvement is warranted.
As a hypothetical, let’s say a hostile country attacks an embassy. There are troops at a base a mile away.
Would it make sense to wait for Congress to convene, then go through all of the lengthy procedures to have a vote to go rescue our people?
The act allows the president to react to immediate threats in a limited capacity, and specifies the process of how Congress can execute its right to shut it down if the president is full of shit.
This isn’t commentary on what Trump is doing, though. But the fact is that the act itself is a limit on how the commander and chief can use the military.
he is israel’s dumpster.
Don’t get me wrong I absolutely want them to stop the war. But having Schumer lead this is the same as having Israel lead this.
The Baileys are definitely in favor of bombing Iran.
Performative stunt from an AIPAC puppet
Mate, Chuck Schumer is a teethless whimp, I’m with you. But isn’t the main complaint about the democrats that they don’t do anything and when they start doing at least something it’s also wrong?
Chuck will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory if this accidentally works. He is 100% Israel first
Useless piece of paper. The courts ruled Trump can’t Tarrif and yet he continues to Tarrif. Congress isn’t interested in anything more than tweets and resolutions, aka, they will not stop this war. They will sit and watch Trump break every resolution and court order all the way to the Nuclear Apocalypse.
So they could’ve done this the whole time? What are the odds Dems are gonna vote FOR war
Schumer will get some sweet promises of future cooperation in exchange for a vote now.
Schumer is like a shitty fey who only sells false promises with a cost measured in souls
he knows the vote is useless, it wont stop trump either way, hes just grandstanding.
If you idiots didn’t abrogate your constitutional authority over war and empower the executive to make war in the first place, we wouldn’t be here. (Yes we would, Trump would have ignored all that.)
(X) doubt
If Schumer is forcing a vote its performative or designed to give Israel an advantage somehow.
when Congress returns from recess next week
Meaning Trump will have to fabricate some excuse to start it up again before then.
By next week Trump will already have launched the nukes to defend precious Israel. lol Chuck you are worthless. Enjoy your vacation I guess?..
This one is for the gallery.
