House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday threw her weight behind a rapidly accelerating effort by Democratic lawmakers to limit Trump's power to unilaterally strike Iran. Why it matters: Democrats are infuriated that the Trump administration postponed briefings on the Middle East that were planned for Tuesday,

After several lawmakers backed war power resolutions to check President Donald Trump’s ability to declare war – a power constitutionally reserved for Congress – Trump ally and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Tuesday that he believes such checks themselves are “unconstitutional.

Social media cooked House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claim that the War Powers Act may be unconstitutional and that it violates the Article 2 military authority of the commander in chief. Congress passed the War Powers Act in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and President Richard Nixon’s secret bombings of Cambodia,