Trump administration briefing on Iran angers Republican senators, boosts effort to restrict presidential power by jonward11
WASHINGTON — A briefing by Trump administration officials about the U.S. military strike that killed Iran’s most famous general backfired on Wednesday, angering two Republican senators and driving them to support a Democratic effort to require congressional approval for any further military engagement.
“That briefing is what brought me onboard,” Lee said. He described the Trump administration officials — including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper — as treating the assembled lawmakers like “little boys and girls” by asking them not to support the Kaine proposal, which would require a debate over the president’s order on Jan. 3 to kill Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.
He called it “probably the worst briefing I’ve seen, at least on a military issue, in the nine years I've served in the United States Senate.” Story continuesMeanwhile, in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced Wednesday afternoon that the House will hold a vote Thursday on its own war powers resolution.
The House resolution will almost certainly pass, given the Democrats’ significant majority in the lower chamber.
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