https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/01/trump-iran-congressional-deadline/President Donald Trump claimed in a letter to Congress on Friday that hostilities with Iran have “terminated” as he reached a legal deadline that requires military operations to halt unless lawmakers authorize force.Trump’s claim came as the United States continues to enforce a naval blockade of Iran and as he declined to rule out additional strikes on the country.The War Powers Resolution of 1973 requires presidents to remove U.S. forces from any conflict that Congress has not authorized within 60 days of the White House notifying Congress of hostilities — a deadline that Trump hit on Friday.Trump wrote in his letter to lawmakers Friday that the conflict has been effectively over since the United States and Iran agreed last month to a ceasefire.“There has been no exchange of fire between United States Forces and Iran since April 7, 2026,” Trump wrote in the letter, obtained by The Washington Post. “The hostilities that began on February 28, 2026, have terminated.”
The president’s argument echoed what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Trump also suggested Friday that he believes the requirement to withdraw U.S. forces within 60 days is unconstitutional.“Most people consider it totally unconstitutional,” Trump told reporters. “Also, we had a ceasefire, so that gives you additional time.”Democrats immediately pushed back. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) described Trump’s argument in a post on X as “bullshit.”“President Trump declaring the war with Iran ‘terminated’ doesn’t reflect the reality that tens of thousands of U.S. service members in the region are still in harm’s way, that the Administration continually threatens to escalate hostilities or that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and prices are skyrocketing at home,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement. “President Trump entered this war without a strategy and without legal authorization and today’s announcement doesn’t change either fact.”Trump is not the first president to argue that he is not bound by the 60-day deadline. President Barack Obama bombed Libya for more than 60 days without seeking authorization from Congress, and President Bill Clinton did the same in Kosovo. (Clinton’s administration argued that Congress implicitly authorized the strikes by passing legislation to fund them within 60 days.)
The War Powers Resolution gives presidents an additional 30 days to remove U.S. forces from hostilities if they certify that it is an “unavoidable military necessity,” but the administration does not appear to have sought such an extension.Some Senate Republicans have said in recent weeks that they view the 60-day mark as an important deadline.Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) said he would not support more funding for military operations against Iran unless Congress declared war. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Congress would need to authorize the war if it exceeded 60 days.Senate Majority Leader John Thune (South Dakota) and other Republicans called on the administration to articulate how it plans to end the war as the 60-day deadline approached.“I’d hope they’d be able to come to us by the end of the week — or when [Congress returns May 11] — and certify that this is on a path to being done, that they’re taking the following steps and the conflict will soon be over,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) told reporters this week.Collins joined Democrats and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) in voting Thursday to advance a war powers resolution directing Trump to withdraw U.S. forces. The Senate rejected the resolution — the sixth on which Democrats have forced a vote in the chamber since the start of the war — on a 50-47 vote.“The Constitution gives Congress an essential role in decisions of war and peace, and the War Powers Act establishes a clear 60-day deadline for Congress to either authorize or end U.S. involvement in foreign hostilities,” Collins said in a statement on her vote. “That deadline is not a suggestion; it is a requirement.”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted against the resolution on Thursday but said she is concerned that Congress has not voted to authorize the war. Congress passed similar authorizations for the use of military force before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but Trump did not ask lawmakers to do so before striking Iran in February.Murkowski said Thursday that she planned to introduce legislation to authorize the war if the 60-day deadline passed without “a credible plan and information from the administration.”“Congress has a role. Congress has to step up and fulfill that role, that obligation that the Constitution assigns to us,” she said on the Senate floor. “We owe it to the men and women who are serving our great nation.”
>>1511383So trump has officially lost the war
>>1511387>Lost the warI don't see any Iranian invaders on the White House lawn demanding the surrender of the US Government, you colossal faggot. Until they come over here and beat us on our continent, we have still won, or at least not-lost.Meanwhile Iran's leadership is still dead and what's left of it is still fractured to the point of immediate Balkanization as soon as they no longer have an enemy to unify against. Like Russia, their nation has already been destroyed, the only question is how long the corpse can shamble onward.
>>1511409They still control the strait and the UAE has left OPEC (the latter of these two things will unironically destroy the US economically).
>>1511409>Meanwhile Iran's leadership is still dead and what's left of it is still fractured to the point of immediate Balkanization as soon as they no longer have an enemy to unify against.Yeah so why don't we fucking leave?
>>1511412>Control the strait>With no navy, no unified army, no unified nation, no hope and no futureThey don't even control Iran, they just exist within it.>>1511413Because faggots and communists want it, that's why. Giving them a melty is worth any amount of dollars.
>>1511418>>With no navy, no unified army, no unified nationThey don't need any of these things, just an insurance company's fear that some retard with a turban could sink an insured tanker.
>>1511418>>With no navy, no unified army, no unified nation, no hope and no futureThey literally still have all of those things, hence why no one is going through the strait and we're constantly trying to negotiate with them.>Because faggots and communists want it, that's why. Giving them a melty is worth any amount of dollars.Unironically destroying the petrodollar and causing a fuel crisis to own the libs. I really hope you're serious, you'd be a fascinating lolcow.
>>1511423>you'd be a fascinating lolcowthey are a fascinating lolcowjust don't get them talking about trannys
>>1511423>They still have all those thingsThey don't.Nobody is going through the strait because the insurance companies are refusing to cover any vessel that goes through the strait. They're treating it as an active warzone when functionally the only combatant there is the United States and is not a threat to their cargo vessels. However, the state of world affairs is not their problem, having an opportunity to charge triple rates and then doing it in an increasingly hook-nosed fashion no matter what it does to the global economy is.>Destroying the petrodollarChrist, (They) did get into your brain pretty good, didn't they? The Petrodollar isn't in any danger now, fifty years from now, or a century after the last of your lineage crumbles into dust. This is only ever going to be an American world from now on with everybody else just living here, we're in no danger of American hegemony going anywhere. Don't be a faggot who parrots brownoid talking points, Anon. You don't want to live in a world where the farm equipment runs the farm.
>>1511426>The Petrodollar isn't in any danger nowThe petrodollar only has value insofar as the dollar is the majority currency used to purchase barrels of oil. The UAE pulling out OPEC threatens that. It also means they lack faith in the US to protect the cartel from outside threats. >Don't be a faggot who parrots brownoid talking points, Anon. You don't want to live in a world where the farm equipment runs the farm.You're not far-right, stop pretending like you are.
>>1511426>Nobody is going through the strait because the insurance companies are refusing to cover any vessel that goes through the strait....Because Iran, who literally has enough munitions they literally were shooting down US jets even after we claimed their air defenses were "destroyed" is now openly declaring anyone who moves through without permission will be fired upon. Which they DID in the case of several vessels that tried in the first few weeks.>The Petrodollar isn't in any danger now, fifty years from now, or a century after the last of your lineage crumbles into dust.Actually the petrodollar is in immense danger because we have the UAE pulling out of OPEC and Iran openly stating their intent to not be paid in USD for passing through the strait. This keeps up suddenly USD stops being the majority currency used for oil and we completely lose power.
>>1511427>>1511428Both of these only completely justify the starting and finishing of WW3. We can't allow any other nation to do business in a reserve currency other than USD, and we can't allow any nation to break out of US hegemony over the world's energy markets for any reason. Bitching about it doesn't help, we need to directly crush any nation trying to swerve away from US Dominance, which is what we built our force-projection based military exactly for. The only danger we're in is that our politicians might not have the political will to kill a generation of browns to preserve civilization on this planet because it will hurt their grift for a decade or two.>Iran shooting down US JetsYou mean damaging one slightly that then flew back to an allied base under its own power and is now under refit for continued combat conditions? Those 'jets'?
>>1511430>Both of these only completely justify the starting and finishing of WW3.Ah yes, winning a conflict so much you have no choice but to start WW3 because of the aftermath of it. Very winning formula there.>You mean damaging one slightly that then flew back to an allied base under its own power and is now under refit for continued combat conditions? Those 'jets'?No the ones that got completely shot down that we had to stage a whole rescue operation to save the pilot of, retard.
>>1511409>Moving the goalpoststrump lost again.Also NACHO.
>President Donald Trump claimed in a letter to Congress on Friday that operation EPSTEIN FURY in Iran has “terminated” as The word Epstein only showed up 200 times in last week's MSM.When Epsteinometer reaches 1000 k or more, a new News cycle will appear
>I don't see any Iranian invaders on the White House lawnLook inside your computer, >>1511409.The fact it says 'Made in China' on most if not all the components within means that a country doesn't need to fire so much as one bullet at you to take over the world.China beat USA - and Trump - at their own capitalism game.>Trump phones>Trump watchesCheckmate, cultists.
>>1511409>I don't see any Iranian invaders on the White House lawn demanding the surrender of the US Government, you colossal faggot>We didnt ACTUALLY lose in Vietnam because we never had to rename the capital to New Hanoi
>>1511387>okay so sure you destroyed our ability to manufacture ballistic missiles >and our ability to enrich uranium, even for civilian purposes>and you sunk our whole navy>and destroyed most of our airforce>and totally destroyed our air defenses >and killed almost our entire senior leadership>but... uhhh... you lost! There is cope and then there is whatever this is.
>>1511672Given the catastrophe the GOP is heading towards in November its fair to say Iran has accomplished more in doing regime change in the US than the other way around[Verification not required]
>>1511674>Republicans will lose the midterms by slightly more so it doesnt matter that Iran got totally and absolutely raped, in fact, Iran won This HAS to be bait
>>1511674Yes. Democrats are going to do very well in November because the people are with them! Thats why they had to do the most aggressive gerrymandering in American history! They are just THAT popular!
>>1511678That was retaliatory gerrymandering and the people demanded it
>>1511679New York gerrymandering in 2022 was in retaliation to Texas maybe redrawing its maps in 2026?
>>1511676>Weasely attempt at not attributing the coming blue wave and cratering Trump approval rating to the current admin completely fumbling Iran in yet another misadventure to please the Zionist classAnd Im man enough to just call your post 'cope' on its face without feminine passive-aggressive rhetorocal wrapping, you faggot
>>1511681So no war in Iran no blue wave?
>>1511681>Iran didnt objectively get raped because of American domestic politics! BAIT
>>1511383>POTUS gets 60 days to fight a war without Congressional approval>60 day deadline coming up >stop the war>wars over guys I promise>day 61 start the war again >dont need to ask permission for another 60 days
>>1511683>We achieved a greater K:D against the NVA, which is why we won in Vietnam!
>>1511685We're not talking about Vietnam. We're talking about Iran. The objectives were to strip them or their nuclear and ballistic capabilities and degrade their conventional capabilities. Total success in that regard.
>>1511686god your life is humiliating
>>1511686>We stripped them of Nuclear capabilities they never had whilst simultaneously giving every non-nuclear armed state aligned against the US to go nuclear ASAP>And we crippled their conventional capabilitie, even though said capabilities are somehow keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed and still lobbing missiles and drones at TelAviv>>1511687That nigger is moving the goalposts more than you'd see in a game of CalvinBall
>>1511686Those were not the objectives at the start of the war. The objective was a preemptive strike to prevent Iran from taking out every single US base in the Gulf in retaliation for Israel going off the reservation
No more fighting
>>1511672NACHO status?
