Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are spearheading a war powers resolution that would direct President Donald Trump to cease using the military against Iran without congressional approval. But it might not get a vote in the House, if House Speaker Mike Johnson has anything to say about it. The resolution “directs the president to terminate the use of United States armed forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government or military, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force against Iran.”  On Sunday, Khanna and Massie appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” to discuss their bipartisan resolution. In the interview, Massie criticized the lack of congressional involvement in deciding whether to engage in a conflict with Iran. “We haven’t been briefed. They should have called us all back. And, frankly, we should have debated this war powers resolution that Ro Khanna and I offered, instead of staying on vacation and doing fundraisers, and saying, ‘Oh, well, the president’s got this under control. We’re going to cede our constitutional authority,‘” the Kentucky Republican said. The two lawmakers’ resolution was introduced on June 17, several days prior to President Donald Trump’s bombing of three nuclear facilities in Iran, but it could still be relevant if there is an escalation in U.S. involvement in Iran’s war with Israel. The Massie-Khanna resolution does not prevent the U.S. from defending itself in the face of an imminent attack. That provision is particularly relevant after Iran on Monday targeted Al Udeid Air Base in nearby Qatar, the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East, in response to the U.S. strike on Iran. Those missiles were successfully intercepted by Qatari and American forces, and no one was reported injured by the Iranian attack. When asked Monday whether he would allow Massie and Khanna’s resolution to come to the House floor for a vote, Johnson said, “I don’t think this is an appropriate time for a war powers resolution, and I don’t think it’s necessary.” The resolution cites the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which states, “at any time that United States armed forces are engaged in hostilities outside the territory of the United States, its possessions and territories without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization, such forces shall be removed by the president if Congress so directs.”  It also asserts that Congress has the sole power to declare war as stipulated in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution, and that Congress has not officially declared war against the Islamic Republic of Iran.  The resolution was yet another expression of Massie’s dissent from the Trump administration and GOP congressional leadership. He also voted against the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill in the House and criticized the president’s bombing of Iran over the weekend.  Trump has threatened to recruit and campaign for a Republican primary challenger to Massie in the 2026 election cycle. The post Duo Still Pressing for House War Powers Resolution on Iran, but Speaker Says It’s Not ‘Necessary’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Democratic lawmakers pushed legislation in both chambers of Congress last week with the aim of limiting President Donald Trump's war powers — something they sought in his first term and began gunning for again ahead of his second inauguration.This campaign, spearheaded in the House by Republican Thomas Massie (Ky.) and in the Senate by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), picked up steam in the wake of Israel's June 12 military strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure and amid suggestions by the likes of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that America's direct involvement in the conflict was a foregone conclusion.Although greatly strained by a continued exchange of explosives, the ceasefire between Iran and Israel that Trump announced on Monday and repaired Tuesday morning appears to have sapped much of the energy from lawmakers' war power delimitation campaign.After all, it appears that Trump's controversial bombings — the kind that Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna (Calif.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Chuy Garcia (Ill.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) don't think the president should be able to order — did not pave America's way into another protracted Middle Eastern entanglement but rather paved the way to an exit for all parties involved.In other words, campaigners must now convince their peers that Trump must be deprived of the powers he just used for a back-burn that spared Israel and its neighbors from a greater conflagration.Massie noted several hours before Trump announced the ceasefire that his war powers resolution to prohibit America's involvement in Iran had 57 co-sponsors.RELATED: Trump’s strike wasn’t an escalation — it was an exit Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images"Whether you like it or not Congress will be voting on U.S. hostilities in Iran," tweeted Massie. "Under the War Powers Act, the President is required to withdraw from hostilities in Iran within 60 days (+30 days ext.) unless he gets a vote of Congress."The congressman changed his tune Monday evening, telling reporters, "I talked to the speaker on the floor just now and told him we wouldn't push [the measure] if the ceasefire holds, so it's really in their court," reported Politico.'I still think we need to do it.'Regardless of whether the ceasefire holds, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made clear that the measure had no chance of survival, adding that Massie should "do right by the country and do right by the Republican team here" by dropping the measure.Democrats, meanwhile, indicated that they still want to hold the doomed vote on the basis of hypotheticals and with the aim of virtue-signaling."We may ... have a conflict in the future, and we need to be on record saying no offensive war in Iran without prior authorization," Khanna told Axios.Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern (Mass.) said, "I still think we need to do it.""This is a serious matter. Congress ought to debate this," McGovern told Axios. "I complained about when Obama took action without congressional authorization; I complained when Biden did as well."With Massie's initiative now virtually dead, New York Rep. Greg Meeks (D) is reportedly preparing to introduce his own war powers resolution, which looks to be an exercise in futility, given the "hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran" he seeks to end are apparently already finished.'I acted pursuant to my constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive.'Over in the Senate, the delimitation campaign similarly shows signs of stalling.Kaine has delayed scheduling a vote on his resolution until he and his colleagues receive a classified briefing Tuesday afternoon on the conflict. Even if the vote proceeds, it's unlikely to go anywhere.Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford noted that "most senators hate hard votes, war is a hard vote, and most of them like a belligerent foreign policy. So there's not really any serious, broad will in the Senate to retake war powers. It would take a whole lot more than this to change that."RELATED: 'They don't know what the f**k they're doing': Trump cusses out Israel, Iran for nearly blowing up his ceasefire Bloomberg / Contributor via Getty Images Contrary to his critics' framing, Trump insists that he had the right to order the the strikes on the Iranian nuclear sites."I directed this military action consistent with my responsibility to protect United States citizens both at home and abroad as well as in furtherance of United States national security and foreign policy interests," he noted in a Monday letter to House Speaker Johnson. "I acted pursuant to my constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive and pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct United States foreign relations."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

It’s no secret that the WNBA has long been a black-dominated league, but BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is shocked to see that the early leading candidates for MVP are white.He calls them “great white hopes.”“White women have invaded the WNBA and are dominating the WNBA, and I think there’s a reason why. I think, honest to goodness, I think sports are being dominated by two-parent-family kids,” Whitlock says, adding, “The era of the baby-mama professional sports leagues is coming to an end.”Caitlin Clark, Sabrina Ionescu, Breanna Stewart, Kelsey Plum, and Napheesa Collier are all leading candidates, and Whitlock couldn’t be happier to see it.However, BlazeTV contributor Steve Kim worries that there could be “dishonest types of agendas being thrown around to make sure that certain players don’t win it.”“Not this year,” Whitlock says. “Unless Napheesa Collier gets hurt, she’s going to win it in a landslide.”Whitlock believes that the trend he’s seeing largely has to do with children and teens who play basketball needing to travel to play in tournaments.“That’s a two-parent experience,” he says. “That’s not a one-parent situation.”He also believes that the cultural pushback against police and religion has negatively impacted children’s sports in the black community.“You don’t have a daddy; there’s a policeman or a fireman or some law enforcement official that’s got a league to try to develop you, to get you on a path away from criminality, or whatever; there’s the church league. That’s all being pushed out,” he explains.“And so now, there is no safety net for the kids that don’t have intact families, and the expense of traveling, the free time to travel, only two-parent families can handle,” he adds.Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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Portability and power rarely go hand-in-hand when it comes to your average gaming PC, but the Asus ROG NUC 2025 mini PC manages just that. This PC may be the size of a hardback book but it still manages to house an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU. Pre-orders for the new ROG NUC are now available with units set to arrive around July 2, but its price is startingly high. We previously saw the Asus ROG NUC 2025 at CES 2025 ahead of Asus’ official unveiling of their latest mini gaming PC, and it listed some pretty impressive specs for such a small computer. Along with its RTX 5080 GPU, the ROG NUC 2025 contains an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU and supports up to 96GB of RAM, which should be enough hardware to run just about any of the best PC games on the market. Continue reading This hardback book-sized gaming PC has an RTX 5080, costs its weight in silver MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 review, Asus ROG Ally X review, Best gaming motherboard

I love a good theme park sim, but there are only so many rollercoasters and hot dog stands you can build before you want something a bit more… dangerous. That’s always been the beauty of the Jurassic World Evolution series, which has had me screaming in terror on several occasions as I watch my loyal customers get mauled to death by some Houdini-esque velociraptors. The recently revealed threequal, Jurassic World Evolution 3, drops later this year, promising loads of improvements and new features. But it’s already received some heat from fans after Frontier Developments confirmed it was using generative AI for character portraits. Continue reading Jurassic World Evolution 3 dev scraps generative AI plans after major backlash

AMD is apparently not only looking to pack loads more cores into its next-gen CPUs, but it’s also reportedly looking to crank up the clock speeds to an “insane” level. According to the latest word from the rumor mill, we’re looking at speeds that don’t just break the 6GHz barrier on next-gen AMD Ryzen CPUs, but smash it into oblivion, and that’s good news for gamers, where clock speed is arguably much more important than having more than eight cores. With a 52-core Intel CPU reportedly in the works, AMD is going to need a trick up its sleeve to compete, and while there are rumors that AMD Zen 7 will bring chips with up to 32 cores, it is expected to top out at 24 cores with Zen 6, with 12 cores on each chiplet. That means AMD's CPUs will need more oomph if they're expected to compete with a 52-core Intel chip, and that’s where this rumored extra clock speed could help out, maximizing the performance per core. Continue reading New AMD Ryzen gaming CPU reportedly smashes 6GHz barrier to "insane" level MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 9070 XT review

What are the Rematch ranks? While jumping into a match of Quick Play is fun, there's nothing like truly testing your skills in ranked mode. With Rematch ranks on the line, most of your teammates should take this game mode seriously... hopefully. As with most multiplayer game ranked modes, you gain RP (reputation points) when you win matches in Rematch. When you earn enough, you'll progress through the ranks and tiers, encountering stronger opponents along the way. However, Rematch doesn't show what all the ranks in the game are, leaving you to figure it out for yourself. With no Rematch crossplay features just yet, the competition is fierce on all platforms. Continue reading All Rematch ranks MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best sports games, Best soccer games, Best multiplayer games