Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), one of Capitol Hill’s staunchest allies of Israel, will support a war powers resolution limiting President Trump’s use of force in Iran. Schneider, a senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has in recent days declined to say how he’d vote on the war powers resolution, which Democrats plan to force…
While the House and Senate are unlikely to restrain the president, bipartisan backers of the legislative branch’s war powers want to put lawmakers on the record.
U.S. launches Tomahawk cruise missiles against Iranian targets in pre-dawn strikes. The Navy weapon costs $1.4 million each and has 800-1,553 mile range.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it has launched retaliatory attacks against multiple nearby U.S. military bases on Feb. 28 after it faced the first strike of what the United States is calling Operation Epic Fury. The Guard said in a statement that it struck the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet Command in Bahrain, as well as U.S.
President Trump's decision to attack Iran was quickly slammed by progressive members of the House including Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Trump announced joint strikes on Iran in a Truth Social video, directly addressing the Iranian people and telling them to seize control of their destiny.
In polling completed just before news of the U.S. airstrikes on Iran, most Americans thought the U.S. should be at least pressuring or engaging the Iranian leadership in some form. And in the days before the strikes began, there was movement toward approval of a U.S. military action specifically to stop them from making nuclear