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Senate votes down War Powers Act resolution to limit Pres. Trump ability to conduct military operations against Iran
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Senate defeats a War Powers Act resolution to prohibit President Donald Trump from launching further military attacks on Iran without Congressional authorization; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says of the operations against Iran, “More and larger waves are coming. We are just getting started"; President Trump says the U.S. had to strike Iran because, “if we waited any longer – if we didn’t hit within two weeks – they would have had a nuclear weapon”; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about immigration enforcement operations and the shooting deaths of two protesters by federal agents; Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) & Attorney General Keith Ellison (D-MN) testify before the U.S. House Oversight Committee about fraud in public aid programs; President Trump says he has secured a pledge from big technology companies to pay for the large quantity of electricity needed for AI data centers, so the cost is not passed on to American households.
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