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Washington – President Trump’s strikes in Iranian nuclear sites during the weekend caused bipartisan efforts to force a vote to reaffirm the power of Congress to declare war, although the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, says that the impulse is now irrelevant because Trump announced Israel and Iran I have agreed to stop the fire.

“It’s a kind of debatable point now, right?” Louisiana’s Republican said Monday night. “It seems quite silly at this time and I hope they recognize it as such and will bed because it has zero possibilities to pass anyway.”

Israel and Iran have not commented on the announcement of Alto the fire of Mr. Trump.

As Mr. Trump last week weighed whether to use the direct military force against Iran, a bipartisan contingent of legislators demanded that the president seek the approval of Congress before advancing with any action.

Several resolutions of war powers were introduced in both cameras before Saturday’s strikes to prevent the United States from getting involved in the war between Iran and Israel. The resolutions would require the Congress to authorize the force against Iran, preventing the president from taking unilateral measures. The legislators who support the resolutions have emphasized that only Congress has the power to declare war under the Constitution.

After the United States attacks in Iran’s nuclear sites, representatives Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, and Rosta Khanna, a California Democrat, asked the congress to be restarted immediately about their resolution of war powers, which has dozens of copatocinadores.

The members of the House of Representatives of the entire political spectrum, from the Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia to the Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, have presented a conflict with Iran, indicating that the resolution could have broad support and approval.

But Johnson said early Monday that he might not get a vote, telling journalists that it is not the “appropriate moment” for a resolution of war powers.

“For 80 years, the presidents of both parties have acted with the same authority of the commander in chief under article two,” said Johnson. “The president made an evaluation that the danger was imminent enough to take his authority as a commander in chief and make that decision.”

Massie said he would not force a vote on the resolution if the high fire is maintained and that the United States is not dedicated to “hostilities” towards Iran.

“Then it is a debatable point,” he said, calling the situation “wait and look.”

Meanwhile, the main democrats in Congress said they were still in the dark about Trump’s decision of bombard three nuclear sites In Iran on Saturday, even as Iran retaliation strikes launched Monday.

The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said Monday afternoon that the White House has not reported it. Jeffries received a brief call shortly before Trump announced the strikes to the public on Saturday, according to a source familiar with the call.

Jeffries told journalists that notification was a “courtesy call without explanation about justification” for the military participation of the United States in Iran and accused the president of potentially misleading to the public.

He wants to know: “What does the administration hide?” And Jeffries added that he has asked the Brief Administration to the leaders of Congress and the main Democrats and Republicans about the Intelligence Committees about the growing conflict. “It has not yet happened, and it is not clear to me what the administration of the American Congress and the people hides.”

A spokesman for the Senate Minority leader, Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said he received a similar notification “without any detail” before the strikes about Iran.

In a statement on Monday after Iran took reprisals, Schumer said he asked the Trump administration to give him an informative session classified on “the image of full threat, the intelligence behind the reprisals of Iran and the details, the scope and timeline of any response of the United States.”

“The Trump administration should not make the same mistake that it made this weekend launching strikes without giving any detail to Congress,” said Schumer.

Jeffries also said he was not informed Monday before Iran launched missiles towards an American base in Qatar.

But Johnson said he had received a classified informative session on the situation on Monday morning.

“Reprisal was expected,” Johnson told journalists.

The Trump administration is expected to inform all the legislators of the Chamber and the Senate on the situation on Tuesday.

Jeffries said the administration has not presented to Congress any evidence that Iran represented an imminent threat that required immediate military action.

“What was the imminent threat to the United States of America?” Jeffries said. “There has been no evidence to present an imminent threat.”

In the Senate, Democratic Senator Tim Kaine in Virginia has introduced a similar resolution. When asked about the voting time on Monday, the majority of the Senate, Whip John Barraso, a Wyoming Republican, said the Senate could vote “this week.”

Jaala BrownNikole Killion and Alan him contributed to this report.