Congress is so irrelevant in this game. Thank Truman and his Cold War congress for that.

It's the Age of Trumpism.

We are now in a place where the president can pull a Truman anywhere and anytime he wants and get away with it.

No one will stop him.

This is their only try, and it will fail.

Who needs a Cold War to justify an imperial presidency?

Congress Slaps down Trump-Saudi War on Yemen

The House of Representatives voted Thursday 247 to 175 to end the US involvement in supporting the Saudi-led war effort in Yemen. 

16 Republicans voted with the Democratic majority.

The Senate had already passed the act, invoking the War Powers act for the first time since it was enacted in 1973 after the Vietnam War.

The legislation now goes to Trump for his signature. 

The likelihood is that the president will veto it, even though he campaigned on getting out of the Middle East and ceasing the hemorrhaging of money being spent on America’s Forever Wars.

Remember when we were told that H. Clinton would be a warmonger and that Trump was the isolationist who would get the US out of the Middle East?

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Congress will likely be over ruled by Trump’s veto, and does not have the two thirds majority in both houses to overturn that veto.