House Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Meeks Statement on Republican Abdication of War Powers Responsibilities

Washington, D.C. - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued a statement after House Republicans voted against his War Powers Resolution (H. Con. Res 40).

"Today, House Republicans chose Donald Trump over the Constitution and their own constituents. The president and House Republicans have failed to articulate a clear justification for this war, or defense of its legality or purpose. The American people overwhelmingly oppose this war, and are paying more at the pump and at the grocery store as a result of it.

"Democrats will continue to fight to bring Trump's hostilities to an end through additional War Powers Resolutions, including one that I will file again today. Republicans will keep having to answer for this illegal war until it ends. The president has shown he lacks both a strategy for this war and a plan to end it, and if Republicans support this open-ended conflict, then they should take the hard vote in Congress of authorizing it."