The US Congress is about to launch a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances - he has already done it, and the country is essentially already at war. Both the House and the Senate have prepared war powers resolutions for votes this week. But restraining a president's war powers is something lawmakers past and present have rarely been able to accomplish. Trump has shrugged at the power of Congress to dictate what he can and can't do, in war and other matters. Debate in Congress beginsAhead of debates, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Trump already laid out his vision for Iran.

Source: The Telegraph March 02, 2026 14:41 UTC