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(85,996 posts) Fri Mar 5, 2021, 12:54 PM Mar 2021

POTUS to work with Congress to repeal AUMFs that have underpinned military operations for decades

Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand
New: POTUS intends to work with Congress to repeal the AUMFs that have underpinned U.S. military operations across the globe for the past two decades, and negotiate a new one that reins in America’s foreign wars, the White House said Friday.

Link to tweet

(AUMF: Authorization to Use Military Force, like the Iraq resolution which was used to justify countless incursions in the region since the initial withdrawal)

Biden backs new war powers vote in Congress, White House says
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/05/biden-war-powers-congress-473843