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War powers & unauthorized force
Military operations conducted without congressional authorization, the legal bases asserted, and Congress's responses, measured against the eighty-year bipartisan expansion of unilateral war-making.
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- The record on war powers and unauthorized force, 2025 to 2026 — 2025-09-02 (contested)
The record on war powers and unauthorized force, 2025 to 2026
From September 2025 through June 2026 the administration used military force in three theaters without seeking new congressional authorization, advancing a novel 'armed conflict with drug cartels' theory alongside conventional Article II claims. Congress objected with escalating votes that reached a first-ever bicameral war powers resolution in June 2026, none of which carried binding force.