Congress’ history of ceding its war powers to the executive branch is a bipartisan problem that requires lawmakers to assert ...

That authority has shifted to the president, however, due to the “forever war” AUMFs, which do not expire - including the 2002 Iraq AUMF - passed since Sep 11, 2001, attacks.

the power to declare war. We hear a ton about the former but barely a peep about the latter. This is of course unfortunate, because as important as spending money is, one can make the argument ...