Early Saturday morning, Feb. 28, the two lead co-sponsors of House Con. Resolution 38 “directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” began mobilizing for a quick Congressional vote on their resolution, which upholds the Constitution that Congress “has the sole power to declare war under.”
Thomas Massie (R-KY), the initiator of the resolution and sole Republican co-sponsor, posted on X that he is “opposed to this War. This is not `America First.’ When Congress reconvenes, I will work with @RepRoKhanna to force a Congressional vote on war with Iran. The Constitution requires a vote,” he wrote, adding a call to the American people to make their voice heard: “your Representative needs to be on record as opposing or supporting this war.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) posted that “Congress must convene on Monday to vote” on the resolution, because “Trump has launched an illegal regime change war in Iran with American lives at risk. this. Every member of Congress should go on record this weekend on how they will vote.”
Co-sponsor Rep. Greg Castor (D-TX) wrote that while Congress must reconvene “for an immediate vote on a War Powers Resolution…. But we will also need millions of Americans to speak out and demand an end” to Trump’s illegal war.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a veteran of the Iraq war, is not one of the 84 co-sponsors of the resolution, but he spoke out clearly against this war. He posted that “Donald Trump has learned nothing from decades of endless war. I went to war three times for this country. Working class folks will pay the price of his military adventurism. Americans are sick of it. I’m sick of it.”
