{"id":22166,"date":"2026-05-02T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-war-powers-resolution-argument-triggers-a-furor-between-trump-lawmakers-over-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:22:10","slug":"gop-war-powers-resolution-argument-triggers-a-furor-between-trump-lawmakers-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-war-powers-resolution-argument-triggers-a-furor-between-trump-lawmakers-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP war powers resolution argument triggers a furor between Trump, lawmakers over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The partisan battle over authorizing the Iran War has shifted to one of semantics, as the sides haggle over a contentious deadline created by a Vietnam-era law. On Friday, the conflict hit the 60-day mark &mdash; a critical marker under the 1973 War Powers Act &mdash; and Democrats are using the milestone to fuel their&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5859981-trump-congress-iran-conflict\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partisan battle over authorizing the Iran War has shifted to one of semantics, as the sides haggle over a contentious deadline created by a Vietnam-era law. On Friday, the conflict hit the 60-day mark &mdash; a critical marker under the 1973 War Powers Act &mdash; and Democrats are using the milestone to fuel their&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22166","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\/22166","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=22166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}