Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) pushed back against the idea that Congress will attempt to limit President Donald Trump’s war powers, suggesting the next steps on Iran will be to monitor the foreign nation’s response.
Prior to Saturday night’s bombing of multiple Iran nuclear sites, several pieces of legislation were being compiled by lawmakers to rein in the United States’s involvement in the conflict between Iran and Israel, one of which was the bipartisan War Powers Resolution. However, Steube did not see any such measure moving forward.
“I don’t see Congress taking any action whatsoever to try to limit President Trump’s war powers,” Steube assessed on a special Sunday edition of Fox News’s America Reports. “They wouldn’t have the votes for that in the House, so I think what you’re going to see is an administration that’s gonna monitor the Iranian response to this. They have been very clear that if the Iranians try to attack our service members in the region, we are going to respond. The United States military is going to respond, so I hope they don’t decide to do that. But if past history shows us anything, the Iranians are gonna try to retaliate, and if they do, based on what President Trump said, they will be met with a very swift response.”
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) echoed Steube’s caution to Iran, arguing retaliation would be “foolish” and that Trump “wants peace.”
“They should choose peace, that will be in the best interest for the Iranian people,” Donalds said.
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who introduced the War Powers Resolution with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) last week, has been critical of Trump’s strikes against Iran, saying there was “no imminent threat” for the U.S. to authorize them. Massie has since drawn the ire of the president, with Trump saying the House Republican votes against “virtually everything put before him” and that “MAGA doesn’t want him.”
In the Senate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) predicted that some Republican lawmakers will cross the aisle and support his resolution to limit Trump’s war powers.