How do 1,000 year old cultural sites present an imminent threat to American security?
They do not.
Therefore NO President has the authority to launch attacks on targets like that, even in response to aggression, without an act of Congress.
When a president engages in war without congressional authorization and Congress does nothing to stop him, the two branches cut the American people out of the process, in violation of our Constitution’s design. This undermines both the liberty and the safety of the people.
By giving Congress, not the president, the authority to declare war—to decide whether acts of war may be commenced against a foreign power—the Founders ensured that the American people would be involved in the debate.
“I will never sign another bill like this again,” he once said, yet he keeps signing them.
Today’s bills are $1.4 trillion—loaded with waste, corporate welfare, endless wars, government overreach, and other unconstitutional stuff. Reps had less than 24 hours to read 2,366 pages.
Hi @Liz_Cheney, President @realDonaldTrump hears all your NeverTrump warmongering. We all see your pro-Bolton blather. I’m just grateful for a president who, unlike you, supports stopping these endless wars.
Good riddance. If Trump really was for peace, he never would have hired Bolton, Pompeo, Haley, and the rest of those neocons in the first place. https://t.co/r93PizuEco