In August 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress to back his effort to widen the U.S. role in Vietnam. He received ...

Bombing Iran without congressional authorization escalated a bipartisan trend of presidents bypassing the original intent of ...

Representatives Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, and Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, introduced a bipartisan House ...

In 2019, Congress approved a bill to end U.S. support for the war in Yemen, which Trump vetoed. In 2020, Trump ordered the ...

Over 45 US lawmakers, led by Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, support a War Powers Resolution to curb President Trump’s authority ...

ABC news Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl weighs in on whether Trump violated the War Powers Resolution with his ...

(Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed efforts on Monday by lawmakers to advance a measure to check President ...

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie is making headlines for defying party lines and backing War Powers Resolution against ...

A No War Against Iran Act, introduced by Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, seeks to “prohibit the use of funds ...

A Democratic senator introduced legislation to prevent President Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without ...

President Donald Trump became the latest in a decades-long pattern of presidents not waiting for Congress to weigh in on war plans when he approved June 21 U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear ...

Presidential war powers have been a debate since they were enacted in the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Congress has not declared war since World War II.