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goobster  ·  1546 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump takes massive gamble with killing of Iranian commander

    How can someone like him just single-handedly start a war?

Because the Senate voted to hand some of their war power responsibilities to the President after 9/11, and have been afraid to take them back ever since.

Just a couple weeks/months? ago, the Senate again refused to hear legislation that would rebalance those powers between the Legislative and Executive branches of the government.

Basically, Trump has almost carte blanche to take any military action - including boots on the ground and targeted assassinations like yesterday's - whenever he wants.... because of Mitch McConnell.