Focus in the United States Democratic Party. Outstanding members have raised the voice after the massive attack that Donald Trump has ordered against three nuclear facilities of Iran and consider it a violation of the Constitution.
Democrats defend that the decision adopted by the White House does not compete with the Trump administration and justify that It is a military action against another country that has been done without the explicit permission of Congress.
In 1973, after decades of American intervention in Vietnam and other parts of Asia, legislators approved the resolution of war powers to reaffirm their authority over military action. However, its effectiveness has always been under dispute, given that if the president decides to undertake a military action at his own risk, A hypothetical resolution against Congress would end up subject to a presidential vetowhich can only be canceled by a two -thirds majority of the votes in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
In any case, the leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, has immediately urged Trump to give explanations to the legislative. “No president should be able to take this nation, unilaterallyto something as transcendental as a war with erratic threats and without strategy, “he said.
“Republican Trump must account for the American congress and people. The danger of a broader, prolonged and devastating war has increased dramatically,” said Schumer.
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Congress, Hakeem Jeffries, has also demanded that those responsible for the Trump administration to inform in a “complete and immediate and immediate way to the legislative of what happened as well as of future operations after what he described as a”Unilateral action“Against the facilities of Fordo, Natanz and Isfahán.
“President Trump has cheated the country about his intentions, has not requested authorization from Congress for the use of military force and runs the risk of seeing the United States involved in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East,” Jeffries denounced.
Democrats in the Senate Armed Services Commission have also expressed their disagreement with bombing. “Unfortunately, President Trump has not continued the bipartisan tradition of periodically informing Congress about the main national security events that affect Americans around the world,” he has known in a statement.
“The American military -with 40,000 troops only in the Middle East -, our diplomats, their families and our citizens, will undoubtedly assume a greater risk with today’s events,” he added.
The progressive wing of the party, represented in figures such as Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, has been even more forceful. “It is a flagrant violation of the Constitution,” he denounced before remembering what happened in Iraq’s invasion under the false alibi of the existence of weapons of mass destruction. “We are not going to chop twice. Instead of listening to the American people, he has heard that war criminal who is (Israeli prime minister) Benjamin Netanyahu,” he denounced.
“Congress must act immediately to exercise its war powers and stop this unconstitutional action,” he concluded.
