U.S. House Votes to Repeal Its Authorization for the First Gulf War
- Spanberger says move ensures it isn’t ‘misused or stretched’
- It’s part of a broader reexamination of troop deployments
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The U.S. House voted to repeal an authorization for the use of military force in Iraq enacted in 1991 for the first Gulf War amid a broad reexamination of deployments in the Middle East and elsewhere.
The vote Tuesday come on the heels of airstrikes ordered by President Joe Biden against Iranian-backed militia over the weekend in Iraq and Syria. Biden said he carried out the strikes under his constitutional authority as commander in chief, and lawmakers were divided on whether he needed congressional approval.