AOC floats impeaching Trump over Iran strike with out Congressional approval

Progressive champion Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a handful of different Democrats shortly floated the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump for launching a army strike on Iran with out Congressional authorization.

“The President’s disastrous determination to bomb Iran with out authorization is a grave violation of the Structure and Congressional Warfare Powers,” the four-term congresswoman from New York wrote on social media Saturday night time, quickly after the president introduced the assault on Iran’s nuclear services.

Ocasio-Cortez charged that Trump “has impulsively risked launching a battle that will ensnare us for generations. It’s completely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

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Democrat Rep. Sean Casten of Illinois additionally argued that the president’s order to bomb Iran’s nuclear websites with out in search of Congressional approval may very well be thought of an “unambiguous impeachable offense.”

Casten, a four-term consultant whose district covers southwestern Chicago and surrounding suburbs, wrote Saturday night time on social media that “this isn’t in regards to the deserves of Iran’s nuclear program….to be clear, I don’t dispute that Iran is a nuclear risk.” 

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However he highlighted that “no president has the authority to bomb one other nation that doesn’t pose an imminent risk to the US with out the approval of Congress. That is an unambiguous impeachable offense.”

Vice President JD Vance, from left, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth throughout an tackle to the nation within the East Room of the White Home in Washington, June 21, 2025.  (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

“I’m not saying now we have the votes to question,” Casten added. “I’m saying that you simply DO NOT do that with out Congressional approval.”

The requires impeachment are probably the most seen, and furthest reaching, illustration of the occasion’s anger with Trump for taking unilateral motion in opposition to Iran.

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Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the highest Democrat within the chamber, wrote that the president had “failed to hunt congressional authorization for using army power and dangers American entanglement in a doubtlessly disastrous battle within the Center East.”

“Donald Trump shoulders full and complete accountability for any adversarial penalties that movement from his unilateral army motion,” Jeffries added in an announcement.

Whereas the manager department technically would not have the authorized authority to order a international army assault with out the approval of Congress, earlier presidents, together with Invoice Clinton, Barack Obama and Trump throughout his first time period, launched comparable army actions in Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran.

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Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York, in an interview Sunday morning on “Fox and Mates,” criticized impeachment calls by Ocasio-Cortez and different Democrats.

“For my colleagues that are actually demanding impeachment, it’s completely absurd,” Lawler argued. “Barack Obama attacked Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen throughout his tenure and by no means as soon as did they name for impeachment. So, these of us are actually reaching new ranges of Trump derangement within the aftermath of yesterday’s determination.”

Congress has not really declared battle since 1941, following the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor throughout World Warfare II, and authorized students have lengthy been divided on whether or not the president has the authority to unilaterally launch a army strike.