Since February 28th, Congress has had multiple votes on bi-partisan War Powers Resolutions that would compel President Donald Trump to withdraw the United States from the war with Iran.
Each time the House and Senate take a vote, more of our elected leaders are listening to us and have changed their vote from no to yes.
May 1st 2026 marked 60 days since the President notified Congress that U.S. military action had begun against Iran. 60 days is an important milestone. When the U.S. Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in 1973, they made 60 days an “emergency expiration date.” The logic was: if a President had to take swift military action to respond to an emergent threat and hostilities lasted a whole 2 months, it was no longer an emergency as it is an ongoing conflict, thus requiring Congressional approval.
This war has now lasted longer than 60 days. Deployments are being extended with no clarity on when they will end. Military families are tired of Congress using troops in speeches while refusing to do the hard work of oversight and accountability. We need Congressional leadership, not partisan politics.
Any time we’re asked to send our uniformed loved ones into harm’s way, we deserve indisputable confidence that the war we’re being called to serve in is just, necessary, and constitutional. This current war with Iran falls far short of what military families deserve from our elected leaders.
Now is the time for us to contact our members of Congress and ask them to pass war powers resolutions and reassert the role of Congress in its constitutional responsibility. As we approach the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding, it’s worth revisiting why our founders wrote Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to begin with.
Send a message to your member of Congress now.