Over 70 Democratic lawmakers are calling for amendment to be invoked to remove Trump from office amid war
Democratic party leaders have vowed to renew the effort to curb Donald Trump’s war in Iran next week after several days of escalating tactics that culminated in a temporary ceasefire on Tuesday evening.
In recent months, several war powers resolutions have failed in Congress after a handful of Democrats continued to vote alongside Republicans. But Trump’s aggressive overtures this week – including a Truth Social post that said “a whole civilization” could be wiped out if Iran didn’t agree to demands, have pushed some to act.
“We need a permanent end to Donald Trump’s reckless war of choice,” said Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, on CNN shortly after Trump announced the two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday. “House Democrats have demanded that Speaker Mike Johnson immediately reconvene the House back into session so we can move a war powers resolution that will end this conflict permanently.”
In a press conference in New York on Wednesday, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said Democrats in the upper chamber would force a vote when Congress returns from recess next week. “This war has made us worse off today than before it started,” he said, noting the cost of the war and the effect on gas prices. “This is one of the very worst military and foreign policy actions that the United States has ever taken.”
