Trump administration rejects war powers deadline as Senate Republicans block resolution
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Today marks 60 days since the Trump administration notified Congress that it was carrying out strikes on Iran – meaning that under the War Powers Act of 1973, today is the deadline for Donald Trump to either end the Iran war or seek congressional authorization to extend it.
However, the Trump administration has repeatedly rejected the deadline, with Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, testifying before a heated Senate armed services committee that the ceasefire agreement reached with Iran more than three weeks ago “means the 60-day clock pauses, or stops”.
Hegseths’s comments reflect what a senior Trump administration official told the Guardian earlier: “For war powers resolution purposes, the hostilities that began on Saturday, February 28, have terminated,” the official said.
On Thursday, Senate Republicans again blocked a war powers resolution put forth by Democrat Adam Schiff that would have limited the conflict until Congress authorizes further military action.
This was the sixth time that Democrats have forced a vote on a war powers resolution related to the war in Iran, all of which have failed, mostly along party lines. But Republicans in recent weeks have said they would eventually like to see a vote and two Republicans – Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky – voted in favor of the resolution on Thursday (one Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, opposed it).
“As I have said since these hostilities with Iran began, the president’s authority as commander-in-chief is not without limits,” Collins said on X. “The constitution gives Congress an essential role in decisions of war and peace, and the War Powers Act establishes a clear 60-day deadline for Congress to either authorize or end US involvement in foreign hostilities. That deadline is not a suggestion; it is a requirement.”
In other developments:
Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in Washington DC, released edited security-camera video of the incident at the White House correspondents’ dinner amid questions about whether or not the suspected gunman, Cole Allen, fired his weapon before being subdued. While the video shows four muzzles flashes from the agent’s gun as he fired at Allen, it was not immediately clear that it does show Allen discharging his weapon after he pointed it at the agent.
Sean Curran, the director of the US Secret Service, told Fox News that Allen was stopped not by secret service gunfire, but by a box used to transport a metal detector, which he tripped over.
Congress has passed a 45-day extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law that grants US intelligence agencies warrantless spying powers.
Trump has threatened to withdraw troops from Spain and Italy, two countries that countries have been vocally critical of his war in the Middle East. This comes after Trump suggested reviewing US military presence in Germany after the country’s chancellor said America was being “humiliated” by Iran.
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