House votes to curtail Iran war powers, forcing Trump to seek congressional approval

In a moment that echoes the oldest tensions in American constitutional design, the House of Representatives voted to remind the executive branch that the power to wage war was never meant to rest in one set of hands alone. With every Democrat and seven Republicans crossing the aisle, the chamber directed President Trump to either cease military operations against Iran or return to Congress for explicit authorization. The vote does not end the conflict, but it draws a line in the sand — one that forces a reckoning between presidential authority and legislative consent that the framers themselve