Weekly votes will be held in Congress until Trump’s war powers curbed: Schumer

The US Senate’s minority leader has vowed to hold a vote “every single week” in Congress until a resolution is approved to curb war powers of President Donald Trump and put an end to his “disastrous war” with Iran that commenced more than 50 days ago.

Speaking on the Senate floor on Monday, Chuck Schumer, who leads the Senate Democratic Caucus, lambasted Trump’s unprovoked war against Iran and his administration’s handling of the aggression.

Schumer also vowed to heighten pressure in Congress through repeated votes on a war powers resolution against the president despite previous failed attempts.

“Tomorrow, Senate Republicans will force a fifth vote on our war powers resolution. We will continue to force votes on our resolution every single week that Trump's war continues,” the Senate’s minority leader stressed.

Schumer’s comment came almost a week after the US Senate blocked a Democratic resolution aimed at restricting Trump’s ability to keep on military operations against the Islamic Republic without explicit congressional authorization.

The US president “continues to demonstrate that he has no plan to end his disastrous war of choice with Iran,” Schumer emphasized, slamming the aggression as growingly directionless.

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The United States and the Israeli regime launched their latest bout of unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic on February 28.

Iranian Armed Forces responded with 100 waves of retaliatory strikes, codenamed Operation True Promise 4, launching hundreds of ballistic and hypersonic missiles as well as drone attacks against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region.

Forty days into the war, on April 8, a Pakistan-mediated two-week ceasefire went into effect but Washington-Tehran negotiations in Islamabad on April 11 failed to reach a deal due to excessive demands and shifting goalposts by the American delegation, headed by US Vice President JD Vance.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Schumer cast doubts about success of Vance’s expected trip to Pakistan on Tuesday for yet another round of possible talks with Tehran.

“It’s unclear whether the Iranians will even agree to meet with him, let alone agree to open up the Strait (of Hormuz) 51 days into this war,” Schumer noted, adding that the administration still lacks “an objective strategy” or “an exit plan.”

Earlier this month, the Senate’s minority leader described Trump’s address to the nation as those of “an unhinged madman,” warning that such rhetoric alienated allies and undermined the US's credibility.

Separately on Monday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also maintained that there was “no intelligence” to suggest that Iran presented an “imminent threat” to the US’ national security interests, contrary to previous assertions by the American president.

“We are going to continue to advance more powers resolutions in the weeks to come, until we are able to successfully bring this reckless and costly war of choice in the Middle East to a close," Jeffries added.

Jeffries further noted that Democrats intend to exert more pressure on Republicans by forcing repeated votes aimed at curbing Trump’s war powers, vowing not “to let our Republican colleagues off the hook.”

“We are going to continue to force them to go on record and either stand on the side of the American people or stand on the side of this reckless war of choice,” Jeffries added.

The US’s all-out war on Iran, which soon turned into a regional conflict, is a costly and illegal operation that has already consumed tens of billions of dollars and raised concerns about the strain on US weapons stockpiles.

Under the US Constitution, the president does not need an approval from Congress for conducting “short-term operations” or eliminating immediate threats.

In a survey conducted earlier this month, 52 percent of registered US voters supported impeachment of Trump compared to 40 percent opposed.

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