Trump cites Iran ceasefire to delay congressional war powers authorization

U.S. military operations in Iran have cost approximately $25 billion, primarily in munitions, with thousands of troops and hundreds of military vessels deployed in the Middle East.

On the day a half-century-old legal clock expired, President Trump offered an untested proposition: that a ceasefire can suspend the constitutional machinery designed to keep war-making accountable to the people's representatives. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 was born from the wounds of Vietnam, a legislative insistence that no executive should wage sustained conflict without democratic consent. Now, with $25 billion spent and thousands of troops still deployed across the Middle East, the United States confronts an old question in new form — who, in a republic, holds the final authority t

Trump cites Iran ceasefire to delay congressional war powers authorization

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