Newsman, D-N.Y., is the latest lawmaker to take to social media in the hours after Trump’s strikes on Iran to weigh in on the move, calling it “grounds for impeachment.”
“The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,” she said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, published shortly after Trump’s White House address.
“He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
Congress is the only branch of government that has the power to declare war, however, presidents have engaged in foreign conflicts in recent decades under the executive authority to authorize defensive strikes.
