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    Middle East Conflicts Revive Clash Between the President and Congress over War Powers

    Middle East Conflicts Revive Clash Between the President and Congress over War Powers

    WASHINGTON — A major deadline under the half-century-old War Powers Resolution came this week for President Joe Biden to obtain Congress' approval to keep waging his campaign against 's Houthis, in line with its sole authority under the U.S. Constitution to declare war and otherwise authorize military force.

    Came, and went, in public silence — even from Senate Democrats frustrated by the Biden administration's blowing past some of the checkpoints that would give Congress more of a say in the United States' deepening military engagement in the Middle East conflicts.

    The Biden administration contends that nothing in the War Powers Resolution, or other deadlines, directives and laws, requires it to change its military support for 's five-month-old war in , or two months of U.S. military strikes on the Houthis, or to submit to greater congressional oversight or control.

    That's left some frustrated Senate Democrats calibrating how far to go in confronting a president of their own party over his military authority.

    Democrats are wary of undercutting Biden as he faces a difficult reelection campaign. Their ability to act is limited by their control of only one chamber, the Senate, where some Democrats — and many Republicans — back Biden's military actions in the Middle East.

    While Biden's approach gives him more leeway in how he conducts U.S. military engagement since Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks, it risks making…

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