{"id":21104,"date":"2026-04-09T01:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-to-try-limiting-trump-iran-war-powers-during-house-pro-forma-session\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:20:46","slug":"democrats-to-try-limiting-trump-iran-war-powers-during-house-pro-forma-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-to-try-limiting-trump-iran-war-powers-during-house-pro-forma-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats to try limiting Trump Iran war powers during House pro forma session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats will attempt to pass a resolution to limit President Trump&rsquo;s war powers in Iran by unanimous consent during a pro forma session of the House on Thursday. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced the plan in a letter to colleagues Wednesday while criticizing Trump&rsquo;s management of the conflict and the&nbsp;ceasefire deal&nbsp;announced Tuesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5822679-democrats-iran-war-powers-house\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats will attempt to pass a resolution to limit President Trump&rsquo;s war powers in Iran by unanimous consent during a pro forma session of the House on Thursday. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced the plan in a letter to colleagues Wednesday while criticizing Trump&rsquo;s management of the conflict and the&nbsp;ceasefire deal&nbsp;announced Tuesday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104","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=21104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}