{"id":10367,"date":"2025-06-17T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/massie-democrats-move-to-block-u-s-strikes-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:46:43","slug":"massie-democrats-move-to-block-u-s-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/massie-democrats-move-to-block-u-s-strikes-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Massie, Democrats move to block U.S. strikes on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Thomas Massie said Tuesday he has filed a House resolution seeking to block U.S. involvement in the burgeoning conflict between Iran and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the move on X, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1935001863100699058\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky Republican said<\/a> he is being joined by a coterie of Democratic co-sponsors led by Rep. Ro Khanna of California. The measure, filed pursuant to the War Powers Resolution of 1973, would block President Donald Trump from engaging in \u201cunauthorized hostilities\u201d with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not our war. Even if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution,\u201d Massie wrote, posting a copy of the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reassert congressional power in American involvement abroad can bring together strange bedfellows \u2014 in this case, a host of leading progressives and a conservative hard-liner who is a frequent thorn in GOP leaders\u2019 sides. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) has proposed a similar resolution in the Senate, though he has yet to announce any Republican cosponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Khanna as co-sponsors, Massie said, are Democratic Reps. Don Beyer of Virginia, Greg Casar of Texas, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez of New York, Lloyd Doggett of Texas, Chuy Garcia and Delia Ramirez of Illinois, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Some pro-Israel lawmakers have already come out against the resolution. \u201cIf AOC and Massie are a yes, that\u2019s a good bet that I\u2019ll be a no,\u201d moderate New York Rep. Lawler said Monday, referring to Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Khanna previously said the resolution would come up as \u201cprivileged,\u201d meaning leaders would be forced to take it up on the floor \u2014 forcing a vote on Trump\u2019s powers that Speaker Mike Johnson would likely prefer to avoid. Republican leaders could move to short-circuit the effort in the House Rules Committee, as they did with previous Democratic efforts to reverse Trump\u2019s global tariffs.<\/p>\n<p><i>Katherine Tully-McManus contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Thomas Massie said Tuesday he has filed a House resolution seeking to block U.S. involvement in the burgeoning conflict between Iran and Israel. Announcing the move on X, the Kentucky Republican said he is being joined by a coterie of Democratic co-sponsors led by Rep. Ro Khanna of California. The measure, filed pursuant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}