US Senate passed non-binding resolution limiting 1973 War Powers Act

WASHINGTON, 14 February 2020, TON: The US Senate has passed a non-binding resolution previously passed by the House seeking to limit US President Donald Trump’s ability to unilaterally make war against Iran via the 1973 War Powers Act.

The resolution has bipartisan support, winning the votes of all 47 Democrats 9 votes of Republicans. The Resolution provided that Trump should have sought the approval of federal lawmakers before ordering the 3 January airstrike that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.

This is the second attempt on which the two legislative houses have expressed consensus to try to saddle Trump’s war announcing power; the first was attempt to bar US support for the Saudi-led coalition’s war in Yemen in 2019, which Trump vetoed.

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