Senators on Monday unveiled their long-awaited legislation to update and restrict the president’s war-making powers just days after the Trump administration launched a military offensive against the Bashar al-Assad regime.
But under the new proposal, lawmakers refused to grant President Donald Trump that explicit authority because, they argue, the president is sending mixed messages and hasn’t outlined a clear long-term strategy with regard to the Syrian civil war.
“There’s going to be a lot of misgivings about giving any kind of broader authorization to the executive if we don’t know where we’re heading in Syria—one day we’re putting more troops in, another day we’re taking them out. That’s not a strategy at all,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told The Daily Beast.
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