Lawmakers respond to U.S. launching strikes on 3 Iranian nuclear facilities

Washington – the legislators of the political alley offered a mixed response on Saturday after the announcement of President Trump that the The United States has launched strikes On three Iranian nuclear installations.

Immediately after Mr. Trump’s announcement, the Congress Republicans, including Senator Lindsey Graham and Sen. Ted Cruzsupported Mr. Trump after announcing in a Post social post That “a complete payload of bombs has been abandoned on the main site, Fordow”.

“There are no other soldiers in the world who could have done so,” Trump said in the post. “The time has come for peace! Thank you for your attention to this question.”

Here is what the legislators say:

Many Republican legislators support us in Iran, but not all

“Well. It was the right call. The regime deserves him. Bravo, president @realdonaldtrump,” said senator Graham, a republican from South Carolina X.

The president of the Chamber, Mike Johnson, said in an article on social networks that “military operations in Iran should serve as a reminder to our opponents and allies that President Trump means what he says”.

“The president gave the leader of Iran at each opportunity to conclude an agreement, but Iran refused to engage in a nuclear disarmament agreement,” said Johnson said in the post. “President Trump was constant and clear that Iran with nuclear arms will not be tolerated. This posture has now been applied with strength, precision and clarity.”

The Senator of Texas Cruz, who supported the Israeli strikes against Iranian targets, said in a press release: “As long as Iran has been able to access and carry out activities at Fordow, they could always rush to build a nuclear arsenal. Tonight actions have become far to grasp this possibility and counter the apocalyptic threat posed by an Iranian nuclear arsenal.”

Representative Rick Crawford, republican president of the House Intelligence Committee, congratulated Trump in a press release and said: “I was in contact with the White House before this action and will continue to follow the developments in close collaboration with them in the coming days.”

The strikes announced by Mr. Trump on Saturday evening increased the conflict between Iran and Israel It started on June 13. Mr. Trump, Wednesday, always made people think If the US military would join Israel’s current attacks against Iran.

Before the announcement of strikes, the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was among the rare Republicans who opposed the American action, arguing on social networks, “this is not our fight”.

“Whenever America is on the verge of grandeur, we get involved in another foreign war,” she said in a Publish. “There would be no bombs fall on the people of Israel if Netanyahu had not dropped the bombs on the Iranian people.”

The representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, referred Mr. Trump’s post to the strikes with a laconic comment: “not constitutional”. Mass presented a resolution on Tuesday To prohibit us in the conflict. A few days earlier, he stressed that the power to authorize the use of the military force rests with the Congress, and said From the Israeli-Iranian conflict on X, “it is not our war. But if that was the case, the Congress must decide such questions according to our Constitution.”

Some Democrats say that American strikes in Iran are unconstitutional

The Democratic Manager of the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber and other Democrats agreed with Massie that the president should have consulted the congress, and Saturday demanded that the legislators be “fully and immediately” informed of the attacks in a classified framework.

“President Trump induced the country induced the country about its intentions, failed to request the authorization of the congress for the use of military force and risks the American tangle in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East,” said Jeffries.

The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, also called on Congress to enforce the law on war powers.

“President Trump must provide the American people and the Congress clear responses on the actions taken this evening and their implications for the security of the Americans,” Schumer said in a statement. “No president should be authorized to make this nation unilaterally in something as consecutive as war with erratic threats and no strategy. Confront the ruthless campaign of Iran of terror, nuclear ambitions and regional aggression requires force, resolution and strategic clarity. The danger of the wider, longer and more devastating war has now increased considerably.”

Senator Mark Warner, vice-president of the restricted intelligence committee, said that even if I was in doubt that Iran constitutes a serious threat to regional stability, “president’s actions threaten to drag the United States in an open conflict” without consulting the congress “and” without clear strategy “.

Democratic representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts Called to congress To return to Washington to vote on Massie’s legislation “to stop this madness”.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described Mr. Trump’s decision to bomb Iran without authorization from Congress “is a serious violation of the Constitution and the powers of the Congress War”.

“He risked impulsively to launch a war that can trap us for generations,” wrote the Democrat in New York. “These are absolutely and clearly dismissal patterns.”

Legislators on both sides of the aisle were Try to limit Mr. Trump’s ability to order strikes On Iran in the midst of his in -course war with Israel, stressing that only Congress has the power to declare war under the Constitution. The extent of the president’s authority to enter foreign conflicts without the approval of the legislative power has been questioned in recent years. The last time the congress authorized the use of military force, it was in 2002, against Iraq. A year earlier, days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Congress adopted a bill approving the use of the military force against the nations, organizations or individuals that the president determines “planned, authorized, committed or helped the terrorist attacks of September 11”.

Michigan Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib urged Democratic colleagues in a post, “do not make another mistake to train our country in another war”, and added: “You can arrest the president and the war merchants at the Congress by signing our resolution of war powers.”

Unlike other Democrats in Congress, senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania said he was fully supporting American strikes on Iran.

“As I had kept it for a long time, it was the right movement of @Potus“Fetterman said in an article on social networks. “Iran is the main sponsor of terrorism in the world and cannot have nuclear capacities. I am grateful and praised the best soldiers in the world.”

Senator Bernie Sanders, who is on tour this weekend in the States of South Red, announced the news of the American attacks against Iran to his supporters and met the songs of “more war” of the crowd.

“It’s so unconstitutional,” said Sanders. “You all know that the only entity that can bring this country to war is the American Congress. The president is not allowed.”

Caitlin Yilek And

Kaia Hubbard

contributed to this report.