{"id":42238,"date":"2025-06-28T13:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42238"},"modified":"2025-06-28T13:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:25:56","slug":"congress-cant-sit-back-anti-war-groups-call-on-senate-to-invoke-war-powers-act-in-friday-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/28\/congress-cant-sit-back-anti-war-groups-call-on-senate-to-invoke-war-powers-act-in-friday-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Congress Can’t Sit Back’: Anti-War Groups Call on Senate to Invoke War Powers Act in Friday Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Demonstrators gather outside the White House for a rally opposing the United States’ strikes on Iran on June 22, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 41,000 people have signed a petition calling on Congress to invoke the War Powers Act to limit Trump’s ability to strike Iran without congressional authorization.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

STEPHEN PRAGER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jun 27, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Senate will vote Friday evening on whether to invoke the War Powers Act, limiting President Donald Trump’s ability to launch a war with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the vote looming, anti-war groups are turning up the pressure, urging their senators to reassert Congress’s ability to check the president’s power after he unilaterally inserted<\/a> the U.S. into Israel’s war with Iran by launching airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More than 41,000 people have signed a petition<\/a> launched by the progressive group MoveOn Civic Action, which calls on Congress to vote for the resolutions introduced in both the House<\/a> and Senate<\/a> in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“By launching strikes on Iran without congressional approval, Trump endangered civilians in the U.S. and around the world, while dragging our country closer to another endless war,” said MoveOn spokesperson Britt Jacovich. “Congress has a responsibility to the people who elected them to check this abuse of power and take urgent action to prevent the U.S. from being pulled into another deadly and costly conflict.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vote on the Senate resolution, introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), will take place Friday at 6:00 pm Eastern time. A vote on the House resolution introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna<\/a> (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The War Powers resolution, which would require Trump to receive congressional approval for future strikes on Iran, has overwhelming support from Senate Democrats. However, according to reporting from Punchbowl News<\/a><\/em> Friday, Sen. John Fetterman<\/a> (D-Pa.), a notorious pro-Israel hawk, is expected to vote no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all other Democrats vote yes, they’d still need five Republicans to join them. The libertarian Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has also signaled his support for the resolution. But the rest, including seven who voted for a similar resolution in 2020, have remained tight-lipped about Friday’s vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of Americans, 56%, said they disapproved of Trump’s weekend strikes against Iran in a YouGov<\/a> poll published Tuesday. They are even more strongly opposed to further escalations, with 84% saying in a Reuters<\/em>\/Ipsos poll<\/a> that closed Monday that they were worried about growing conflict between the U.S. and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, Trump announced that a cease-fire had been brokered between Israel<\/a> and Iran. But with the two countries accusing one another of violating the truce, doubt remains about whether it will hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cavan Kharrazian, a senior policy advisor for the group Demand Progress, said that uncertainty is all the more reason Congress must assert itself to stop further escalations from the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In just days, we’ve gone from a supposed two-week decision window to immediate U.S. airstrikes, a brief cease-fire, Israel and Iran trading fire again, and now another fragile pause,” Kharrazian said. “We strongly support diplomatic efforts to end this crisis\u2014but Congress can’t sit back and hope for the best while the risk of U.S. involvement in unauthorized hostilities remains.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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