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House passes defense policy bill with proposal to repeal AUMF
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House passes defense policy bill with proposal to repeal AUMF
The House on Wednesday voted to pass its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, with a bipartisan amendment to repeal the two laws authorizing the use of military force (AUMF) in Iraq.
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The legislation, which authorizes funding and sets policy for the U.S. military, passed 231 to 196. Four Republicans voted in opposition of the bill while 17 Democrats joined the rest of the GOP in voting in for it.
The AUMF amendment, part of nearly two dozen amendments added in a series of votes, would repeal the 2002 Iraq War and 1991 Gulf War authorizations as well as make it more difficult for presidents to bypass Congress on military actions.
Lawmakers voted 261 to 167 to pull the AUMFs, which critics say have been abused by presidents as they grant the commander-in-chief authority to use military force without issuing a formal declaration of war. All Democrats voted in support of the amendment, joined by 49 Republicans—about one-fifth of the GOP lawmakers.
Presidents routinely use AUMFs to legally justify military action, with President Trump relying on the 2002 AUMF, which sanctioned the United States’s invasion of Iraq, to authorize a fatal strike on Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January 2020.
The vote came after three members of the House Freedom Caucus - Reps. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) - © The Hill
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