President Biden
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Military action has grumbled from Democrats who say they have not been adequately consulted on the strikes, questioning where Biden has the authority, which according to the White House falls under his powers as commander-in-chief.
The war power debate will have detrimental consequences if only Syria, but senators say it emphasizes that although the government has changed in the spotlight since the last time, the need for action from Congress has not changed.
“The airstrikes in Syria last week show that the executive, regardless of the party, will continue to expand its war forces,” Sen. Tim Kaine
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Attempts to restrain a president’s war authorities regularly divide the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and are a landmine of competing and conflicting interests: Presidents are reluctant to relinquish power, with Republicans often on their guard for military restraints. in general, while Congress has increasingly given away. its powers in recent decades.
‘I think the problem is mostly within these walls. I think it really had to define who America’s enemies are today and Congress … generally does not want to get involved in the work, so I think Congress has been just as used to making those decisions over the years contract, “Sen said. Chris Murphy
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Kaine and Sen. Todd Young
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This is not the first time that Congress has sought to revoke the decades-old authority. Kaine and Young introduced similar legislation in 2019, but it withered in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The House voted last year to revoke the 2002 authorization, which threatened Trump’s veto. The measure did not progress in the IDP-controlled Senate.
Although the 2002 law allowed Iraq to invade, President Obama cites it as a legal defense for action in Syria against ISIS, and the Trump administration initially cites strikes against Iran.
Kaine said he informed the White House on Monday night during a call about his bill and sent them a copy, describing it as open for discussion.
“I’m glad to say that the White House is really willing to step in,” he told The Hill.
When asked about the dividing lines between the branches of government, Kaine predicted that “we will run into it again.”
“The reason I think it could go somewhere now is that you have a number of Republicans who were last interested in my position, but that they did not want to cross Trump,” he added.
Five chairmen of the House committee also sent a letter to Biden earlier this year urging him to support the 2002 authorization and to reform the law passed in 2001 to fight Al Qaeda.
In a symbolic victory, the Democrats, who have long pushed for the recall or overhaul of the war authorities, incorporated language into the 2020 party platform that pledged to recall the AUMFs with Congress and replace them with a now and specific framework ‘.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken
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“For some the porridge is too hot, for others the porridge is too cold. And can we get consensus on what exactly is right? “But I would be determined and committed to working on it,” he said.
A push to reform the authority in 2001 could be more politically difficult.
Kaine said he had talked to senators about ideas on how to reform the authority set up to take military action against those who authorized, committed, or assisted the terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. But since 2001, it has focused more on green light operations, which critics say have little or no connection to 9/11.
‘We are rewriting ’01. “But we do not have a proposal yet,” Kaine said.
Murphy said Congress should work closely with the Biden government on how to rewrite the authorization in 2001, but noted that it would be ‘troublesome’.
“What I think we need to do is suppress the 2001 AUMF, in part as a coercive mechanism to write a new authorization,” he said.
Murphy predicted that the division would fall along party lines and less than a gap between a Democratic government and Congressional Democrats.
“Historically, there has not been much Republican interest in rewriting the 2001 AUMF,” Murphy said.
But Murphy said there are two talks going on, including with Sen. Mike Lee
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“There are some of us who are talking across the aisle about the reform of military forces,” he said. “Mike Lee and I … talked about the whole war force statue, which obviously needs an update.”