Advertisement“There was a time, not too long ago, we voted to go into the Iraq war. We voted to go into the Afghan war,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told HuffPost, calling the lack of a vote on Iran “a bad precedent.”“This is a Congress without ambition,” he lamented. And we’ll go, Well, you know, you’re laying the predicate right here [with Iran],” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) acknowledged in an interview with HuffPost. Republican lawmakers — many of them still in Congress now — were livid that he did so without approval from Congress. More importantly, the Trump administration has not taken the possibility of committing U.S. ground troops off the table.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2026 12:37 UTC