Senate Republicans are still backing President Donald Trump on the war against Iran, dismissing Democrats’ latest war powers push as political theater that has nothing to do with national security.
The support gives the White House more time to search for an end to the six-week-old conflict, but also risks tying the entire GOP to the unpopular war. But Republican lawmakers say the repeated Democratic objections to military intervention in Iran ignore the success of the operations so far.
“It’s just exhausting,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) told reporters Tuesday. “Doing a war powers resolution just undermines the president. I don’t believe…
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