Breaking news: Senate votes to repeal decades-old war authorizations for Iraq and Persian Gulf conflicts, 20 years after U.S. invasion of Iraq
the bill then, many of whom were from the moderate and hard-right wings of the conference. A majority of Republicans opposed the measure, arguing at the time that ending existing AUMFs could weaken the United States’ posture in responding to current, more modern threats.
The White House has already indicated that President Biden would sign the bill if it reached his desk, noting that the United States conducts no ongoing military activities that rely primarily on either authorization. A bipartisan group of senators, led by Tim Kaine and Todd C. Young , spearheaded the effort to repeal the authorizations of military force before the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this month, noting that Iraq is now a strategic partner, not an “enemy” state as it was when the United States invaded the country in 2003.Young has said the effort to repeal the authorizations transcends party politics, political philosophies or geography. The anniversary is a time to honor the 1.
To give a sense of how outdated these authorizations are, Kaine and Young pointed out that only three of the 100 members of the current Senate were in office when the Gulf War was authorized in 1991. Only a handful of members of the current Congress were in office when Operation Iraqi Freedom was authorized in 2002.
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