New fight in Congress over war powers with US troops in Eastern Europe
February 08, 2022 at 12:01 PM EST
Lawmakers on the left and right have long argued that old AUMFs approved in 2001 after 9/11 and 2002 for Iraq are calcified and outmoded. But why would the U.S. need to approve a new AUMF if the U.S. wasn’t at war?