BREAKING: Senate repeals Iraq War authorization 20 years after invasion
"The United States, Iraq, the entire world has changed dramatically since 2002, and it's time the laws on the books catch up with those changes," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer However, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came out against the move, arguing Tuesday in awhich authorizes the U.S. to target perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, is viewed as a far more sweeping, blank-check resolution that has been cited for U.S. military activity all over the world.
The 2001 AUMF is still in effect and there is no sign that it will be repealed by Congress in the near future.
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