President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, March 23, 2026.(AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
It appears Congress will finally get to vote on President Trump’s self-initiated war with Iran. It won’t be a direct vote on the war, even though Article I of the U.S. Constitution vests that power in Congress and not the executive branch. It will be an indirect vote providing funding for the war effort and replenishing our munitions — and perhaps other items.
But given Trump’s resentment at needing congressional support for his actions, the effort to pass a funding bill may not go well.
Iran’s theocratic regime has been a thorn in the side of freedom and of democracies, especially the U.S. and Israel, for nearly 50 years. It is long past time for that regime to be ousted or eliminated. Iran may not have been an “imminent threat” in the sense that it was about to attack the U.S., but it was a persistent and sometimes lethal threat to Americans, most recently through the regime’s primary proxies: Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.
The political question isn’t whether the mullahs needed ousting. It is whether one man, President Trump, had the right and authority to unilaterally initiate a war that has implicated nearly a dozen non-combatant countries, taken thousands of lives — including American servicemen and women — costs more than $1 billion a day, and threatens the economies of several countries dependent on the oil and gas and associated products that pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
In short, Iran is not the limited and targeted action Trump took in Venezuela.
Read the full article at TheHill.com