AOC Floats hit each trump in Iran strike without Congress approval

Progressive Champion Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats emerge quickly Donald Trump A military strike against Iran without the authorization of Congress.

“The disastrous decision of the president to blow up Iran without authorization is a serious violation of the constitution and the power of Congress war,” the four-term congresswoman from New York wrote on social media Saturday night.

Ocasio-Cortez Trump is accused of “the impulse risking a war that could pass on us from generation to generation. It is definitely the reason for improper each.”

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Rep. Sean Casten, Democrat of Illinois, also argues that the president’s bombing order Iran’s nuclear site Not seeking Congressional approval can be considered a “clear crime of improvisation.”

Casten, a four-term representative whose area covers and surrounding suburbs of Southwest Chicago, wrote Saturday night On social media “This has nothing to do with the merits of Iran’s nuclear program… To be clear, I don’t question Iran as a nuclear threat.”

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But he stressed: “No president has the right to blow up another country that would not pose an imminent threat to the United States with Congress’ approval. This is a clear crime of bombing.”

On June 21, 2025, Vice President JD Vance, from left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Vice President Pete Hegseth’s speech in the East Room of the White House in Washington on June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I’m not saying we have vote bomb imp,” Kasten added. “I’m saying you wouldn’t do that without Congress’ approval.”

The call for impeachment is the most obvious and farthest representative of Trump’s anger against unilateral action against Iran.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the highest Democrat in the chamber, wrote that the president “has failed to seek congressional mandate to use military power in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East and risk America’s entanglement.”

“Donald Trump is fully responsible for his shoulders, fully responsible for any adverse consequences of his unilateral military operations,” Jeffries added in a statement.

Although the executive branch has no technical legal authority to order foreign military attacks without Congress’ approval, former presidents, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama During his first term, Trump launched comparable military operations in Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran.

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Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican in New York, criticized Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats for impeachment calls in Sunday morning in an interview with Fox and Friends.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous for colleagues who are asking for impeachment now,” Lawler said. “Barack Obama attacked Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen during his tenure and they never called for impeachment. So, after yesterday’s decision, these guys really reached new levels of Trump.”

Since 1941, Congress has not actually declared a war after its attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, and legal scholars have long been divided on whether the president has the right to unilaterally launch a military strike.