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WASHINGTON – Arizona Reps. Andy Biggs and David Schweikert were among just 11 Republicans who crossed party lines Thursday as the House voted to limit the president's ability to pursue military action without approval from Congress.
The vote to revoke the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force came just moments after the House – with almost no GOP support – approved a separate measure to prohibit war with Iran unless Congress gave its approval.
WASHINGTON — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., denounced Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for the Senate vote that rejected witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday moved to block President Trump from taking military action against Iran without the approval of Congress, voting to repeal a 2002 war authorization and to bar him from using federal funds to mount an unauthorized strike against Tehran.
The Trump Doctrine calls for a revitalized military so America has the strength to meet any threat. It asserts the preeminence of American interests. It suggests forbearance to provocations in order to avoid escalation of conflicts that might draw us into war. It attempts to use sanctions and other non-military responses to prevent military confrontations. It advocates for disengagement from foreign theaters in which no specific American interest is at stake.
All of these principles aim to keep our nation safe and bring more of our men and women in uniform home.
In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump set himself apart from all other candidates of both parties by proposing a change in U.S. foreign policy. His idea was established in three broad statements that resonated with the electorate: American interests first, no more endless wars, and bring our men and women home.
The pro-intervention crowd that has dominated American foreign policy for two generations remains intractably opposed to President Trump's commonsense approach.
In their latest impeachment effort, Democrats argue that their case is "overwhelming" and that their facts are "uncontested." Yet, Democrats are demanding additional witnesses in the Senate, including former national security adviser John Bolton and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. At the same time, they accuse Republican senators of a "cover-up" for not acquiescing to Democrats' demands.
The American public has now heard two full days in the Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Democrats are boring Senators and countless Americans around the country with their monotonous drabble, but their dangerous rhetoric to delegitimize President Trump's administration and legacy has spiked.
As the impeachment trial of President Trump got underway in the Senate Tuesday, it was obvious that House Democrats can't present a plausible case for removing the duly elected president from office. As a result, justice requires that the Senate should simply dismiss the two badly flawed articles of impeachment against the president and move on to more important business.