\u201cPresident Trump has done a phenomenal job,\u201d she said. \u201cSo far, he’s been excellent, but I am deeply concerned about the Washington war machine, getting their talons into the White House and getting us into a protracted and elongated and endless war with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n Mace\u2019s statement marks a clear break from the Republican mainstream, which remains largely supportive of the president\u2019s war with Iran. Her opposition to continuing the war comes as the House and Senate have been asked by the Pentagon to provide a $200 billion package to fund ongoing military actions while Democrats are pushing efforts to restrict Trump\u2019s warmaking through legal means.<\/p>\n Her opposition wasn\u2019t completely a surprise\u00a0after she abruptly left a meeting of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday\u00a0and complained to reporters that the administration wasn\u2019t supplying Congress with sufficient rationalization for the deployment of ground troops or further U.S. resources in and around Iran.<\/p>\n \u201cI was disappointed with the lack of information we got yesterday,\u201d she told\u00a0The Independent<\/em>. Mace criticized the fact that unlike previous administrations, the Trump administration had not consulted Congress.<\/p>\n But it was a much more hard-line and public message to both congressional GOP leaders and the White House as debate rages over whether or how to rein in Trump\u2019s war powers.<\/p>\n \u201cYou go back to Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt declared war through Congress,\u201d she said. \u201cYou look back to the [Authorization of the Use of Military Force] of 2001 and 2002 President Bush, who I vehemently disagreed with, going into Iraq, still came to Congress to get authorization, authorized use of military force.\u201d<\/p>\n One of her home state senators, Lindsey Graham, is seen as one of the war\u2019s biggest boosters. Graham responded to Mace\u2019s comments on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cI’ll leave it up to her. I like Nancy. We don’t agree on foreign policy sometimes, but it’s President Trump’s call, not mine,\u201d he told\u00a0The Independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cBut what you’re doing is you’re disagreeing with him, and I am supporting him. It’s pretty clear that I think what President Trump did on Iran was necessary,\u201d added Graham.<\/p>\n Even with Mace\u2019s support, the War Powers resolution offered by Democrats will still need more Republicans on board to matter. The Senate rejected an effort to advance the measure this week, with one Democrat and one Republican, John Fetterman and Rand Paul, respectively breaking ranks on the legislation and putting a final vote at 53-47 to defeat it. In the Senate, the legislation will need 60 votes to avoid a filibuster and could still be vetoed by Trump if it was passed by both chambers.<\/p>\n Such a rebuke by Congress would be rare and damaging for the White House. While it remains an unlikely possibility, lawmakers are much less certain of the prospects of the Pentagon\u2019s supplemental budget request, which is already facing opposition from both Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n Senate Majority Leader John Thune would not endorse the bill\u2019s chances of passage earlier this week when asked about it by CNN.<\/p>\n \u201cIt remains to be seen,\u201d he said of whether it could pass. \u201cAnd obviously we haven\u2019t seen any of the specifics around it yet. Saw the aggregate number they\u2019re proposing, but we\u2019re going to need to, obviously take a look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n At a Cabinet meeting on Thursday the president and his team repeated their insistences that the war in Iran was largely over, though Trump stressed to reporters that there were more military targets that U.S. forces would hit before the war concluded.<\/p>\n He also rejected\u00a0a report from the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>claiming that he was \u201cdesperate\u201d to end the war given the ongoing political consequences his Republican Party is suffering in polls as the conflict continues.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n
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