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A bipartisan push to check the president’s war powers could soon fall victim to mission creep as the House takes up legislation that would mark a formal end to the Gulf and Iraq wars.
"This is essentially a solution in search of a problem," said the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, calling Hawley's bill "wasteful."
Republicans, by and large, remain in favor of giving the president sweeping authority to use military force abroad despite a groundswell of GOP support for the repeal of two decades-old war authorizations.
Lawmakers voted to begin debate on repealing the authorizations for the use of military force passed in 1991 and 2002 that paved the way for the United States to get involved in the Middle East wars.