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Just hours after President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of deporting Elon Musk to South Africa, the former DOGE chief appeared to change his recent negative tune about Trump, giving the commander in chief credit for resolving numerous world conflicts.
"Credit where credit is due," Musk posted on X early Wednesday.
"@realDonaldTrump has successfully resolved several serious conflicts around the world."
Musk attached a message Trump had posted Tuesday on Truth Social, in which the president stated: "My Representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on Gaza. Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we will work with all parties to end the War.
"The Qataris and Egyptians, who have worked very hard to help bring Peace, will deliver this final proposal. I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Musk recently has been vocal in his opposition to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill due to concerns about adding to the national debt.
On Monday, Musk wrote: "It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!
"Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people."
Trump pushed back early Tuesday, saying on Truth Social, "Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!"
When reporters asked Trump later Tuesday morning if he would deport Musk, the president said, "We'll have to take a look."
"We might have to put DOGE on Elon," Trump added, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk previously led. "You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon."
Musk responded to Trump, saying: "So tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now."
On Monday, Musk vowed to bankroll primary challengers of any Republican lawmaker who voted to pass Trump's bill "if it is the last thing I do on this Earth."
"He should've known I wouldn't do that, I couldn't do that. I campaigned on those things for two years. I never understand why he did what he did, but he's not going to get his mandate, and he better be careful, because he might not get anything else. You know what that means, right?" he said.
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Reports have confirmed that John McConnell Jr., a federal judge in Rhode Island, long has been a financial supporter of Democrats, contributing some $60,000 to the party's candidates.
He was nominated to the bench by Democrat Barack Obama.
He's a former treasurer of the Rhode Island Democratic Committee and chaired the campaign of Providence Mayor David Cicilline.
But what's gotten attention now is that he's also documented as being part of an organization that was funded, at least partly, by grants from the federal government.
Then at the same time he, instead of recusing himself from the case over government grants and funding, sided with a team of Democrat state attorneys general who oppose President Donald Trump's agenda to freeze and cut federal funds being handed out through grants to nongovernmental groups.
A report at Fox News explains that U.S. Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., are asking the judicial council for the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to investigate McConnell over that issue.
Their charge is that the judge has a financial conflict of interest in the outcome of the issue.
McConnell has been making decisions in "a pivotal funding freeze case in Rhode Island brought by 22 states with Democratic attorneys general. The case centers on the Office of Management and Budget's order in January that federal agencies implement a multibillion-dollar suspension of federal benefits."
States say they get the money no matter what because Congress approved it, and McConnell agreed, blocking Trump from suspending those payments.
The fight now has gone over McConnell's head, to the 1st Circuit.
But in his ruling, he had claimed the Trump suspension "fundamentally undermines the distinct constitutional roles of each branch of our government." He claimed the freeze wasn't rational and showed no "thoughtful consideration" for the consequences.
Issa and Jordan pointed out that McConnell long has been a leader with Crossroads Rhode Island, an organization that has gotten "millions of dollars in federal and state grants."
"Given Crossroads's reliance on federal funds, Judge McConnell's rulings had the effect of restoring funding to Crossroads, directly benefitting the organization and creating a conflict of interest," Jordan and Issa wrote.
An earlier complaint over McConnell's ties to Crossroads, and his decision affecting that group's funding, was filed by America First legal.
And Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., already has filed articles of impeachment against the judge.
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Numerous firefighters and police officers in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, have been shot and killed in an apparent ambush on Sunday, with someone purportedly intentionally setting a blaze to lure the first responders to the hotspot to be fired upon.
"Send law enforcement now! There's an active shooter zone!" shouted one firefighter pleading for help on his radio.
"Everybody's shot up here! Law enforcement! Code 3 now up here!"
"We now have two deaths. We have an unknown amount of casualties," said Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris.
"We still have civilians coming off of that mountain. We might have civilians that are stuck or in shock on that mountain. So this is a very, very fresh situation."
"It is going to be a tough next couple of hours, absolutely," Norris added. "I'm hoping that somebody has a clear shot, and is able to neutralize. Because they are not, at this point in time, showing any evidence of wanting to surrender. So as soon as somebody has a clear shot, I encourage them to take that shot, neutralize the threat."
"FBI assets are headed to the scene in Coeur d'Alene to provide tactical and operational support, said FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. "It is an active scene."
"Multiple heroic firefighters were attacked today while responding to a fire in North Idaho," said Gov. Brad Little.
"This is a heinous direct assault on our brave firefighters. I ask all Idahoans to pray for them and their families as we wait to learn more. Teresa and I are heartbroken."
"As this situation is still developing, please stay clear from the area to allow law enforcement and firefighters to do their jobs."
NBC affiliate KHQ in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, reports: "Police and emergency crews are responding to an active shooter situation, where multiple firefighters were reportedly shot.
"Kootenai County Deputies are asking residents to avoid the area. According to Northern Lakes Fire Protection Chief Pat Riley, firefighters were reportedly shot while responding to a brush fire in the area of East Nettleton Gulch Road.
"According to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office, there is an active shooter situation at Canfield Mountain. Injuries have been reported, but the extent is unknown. Authorities are asking the public to avoid the area.
"Fire crews were forced to pull back, and the brush fire remains an active threat. Authorities urge residents nearby to remain cautious and alert, as the situation is still unfolding."
Kootenai County Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Howard told ABC News that "when fire personnel responded to the blaze, they started getting shot at by an unknown person in the woods."
"Law enforcement is investigating whether the fire could have been intentionally set in order to lure first responders to the scene, Howard added."
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President Donald Trump on Sunday said whoever leaked an initial, low-confidence Defense Intelligence Agency report on the success of U.S. military strikes on Iran's nuclear sites "should be prosecuted," and floated the notion of journalists revealing the perpetrator.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel, Trump told anchor Maria Bartiromo: "They should be prosecuted."
"Who specifically?" asked Bartiromo.
"The people that leaked it," replied Trump.
"We can find out. If they want to, they could find out easily. You go up and tell the reporter, 'National security, who gave it [to you]?'
"You have to do that, and I suspect we'll be doing things like that," Trump continued.
As WorldNetDaily reported last week, Trump said the U.S. pilots who bombed three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday were "devastated" by negative news reports in American media minimizing the damage inflicted on the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons development.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands, Trump said: "I got a call that the pilots and the people on the plane were devastated because they (the media) were trying to minimize the attack. And they all said it was hit."
"They were devastated. They put their lives on the line and they have … real scum come out and write reports that are as negative as they could possibly be. It should be the opposite. You should make them heroes and heroines.
"There were so devastated when they heard this news. And you know what they said? I spoke to one of them. He said, 'Sir, we hit the site. It was perfect, it was dead-on!'
"Because they don't understand fake news because they have a normal life, except they have to fly very big, very fast planes. But it's a shame. You should be making them heroes."
At another press availability earlier in the day, Trump said: "This was an unbelievable hit by genius pilots and genius people in the military, and they're not being given credit for it because we have scum … CNN is scum. MSDNC is scum. The New York Times is scum. They're bad people. They're sick.
"What they've done is, they're trying to make this unbelievable victory into something less. Now even they admit that it was hit very hard. But it wasn't hit hard. It was hit brutally, and it knocked it out."
Appearing with Trump at The Hague was U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who stressed Iran's nuclear weapons program is indeed "obliterated."
"Those that dropped the bombs precisely in the right place know exactly what happened when that exploded," Hegseth said.
"And you know who else knows? Iran. That's why they came to the table right away because their nuclear capabilities have been set back beyond what they thought were possible because of the courage of a commander in chief who led our troops despite what the fake news wants to say."
He continued: "The skill and the courage it took to go into enemy territory flying 36 hours on behalf of the American people and the world to take out a nuclear program is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom.
"And then the intact, the instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons to try to hurt President Trump or our country. They don't care what the troops think. They don't care what the world thinks. They want to spin it to try to make him look bad based on a leak."
"What do leakers do? They have agendas. And what do they do? Do they share the whole information or just the part that they want to introduce."
"Why is there low confidence [in the damage assessment]? Because all of the evidence of what was just bombed by twelve 30,000-pound bombs is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep, because Iran's nuclear program is obliterated."
As WorldNetDaily reported Tuesday, CNN reported that three sources indicated the U.S. attack Saturday "did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back a few months."
The network claims the information was based on a bombing assessment report done by the Defense Intelligence Agency after the strikes.
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Genteel. Restrained.
Those descriptives often are applicable in Supreme Court opinions when factions, a majority and a dissent, disagree.
It sometimes moves toward the critical, such as when Chief Justice John Roberts and others, disagreeing with the leftist majority at that time that fabricated out of nothing a "right" to same-sex marriage pointed out that there was nothing in the Constitution supporting that scheme.
But all of a sudden, the rantings of Ketanji Jackson, the leftist nominated by Joe Biden who confirmed her lack of ability by assuring senators at her confirmation hearing that she was unable even to define "woman," are generating a reaction.
Among the paragraphs in the majority opinion on Friday that said entry-level court judges in the federal judiciary have been exercising powers they are not given by the Constitution through their nationwide injunctions, giving President Donald Trump a court victory that could reverberate for presidencies, were the following:
"We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries' worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."
And, "JUSTICE JACKSON would do well to heed her own admonition: '[E]veryone, from the President on down, is bound by law.' … That goes for judges too."
It is in a commentary at the Federalist that the writings of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who authored the majority opinion, were cited as taking "a flamethrower to KBJ's reality-challenged dissent."
A fight over birthright citizen prompted the court case, as the president challenged the multiple lower-court nationwide injunctions issued, but the justices did not comment on the birthright dispute, which now will return to its progression in the court system.
"Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has never been one to shy away from engaging in left-wing political activism while on the bench. And now, it appears some of her Supreme Court colleagues are growing tired of it," the commentary said.
It took literally no time at all for those doing satire online to walk through the door that had been opened. From the satire site the Babylon Bee:
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A new tariff is being announced by the White House for Canada.
President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday, "We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
The move comes after the creation of a digital services tax by Canada on American tech companies.
A report from the Washington Examiner notes that Trump confirmed he was cutting of trade negotiations with Canada and instituting a new tariff immediately.
"We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country," Trump said on social media.
"They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately."
The tariff announcement will be made within a week, he said.
Trump flamboyantly has suggested annexing Canada as the 51st state, and got into a push-and-shove with America's northern neighbor earlier by announcing a 25% tariff.
Trump later adjusted those tariffs to mostly 10%.
And announcement said at the time, "President Trump will not allow our national security to be compromised by our closest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, but recognizes the unique impact that these tariffs could have on American automotive manufacturers."
The White House said Trump was using tariffs "as a tool to take decisive actions that put Americans' safety and our national security first."
He earlier had imposed tariffs to secure the border and stop the flow of dangerous drugs through Canada into the U.S.
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A Democrat member of Congress facing multiple criminal counts for impeding federal law enforcement officers, interfering with their duties and assaulting them for her violent confrontation with them at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility has pleaded not guilty.
U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey could face up to 17 years in prison if convicted on the charges.
She was indicted by a grand jury several weeks for "forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers at the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark last month," according to reports.
Her lawyer, Paul Fishman, claimed, in a statement, "Congresswoman McIver pleaded not guilty because she is not guilty. On May 9, she was at Delaney Hall to carry out her responsibilities as Member of Congress. She was there to inspect an ICE detention facility and to see for herself whether the Trump administration is obeying the laws and Constitution of the United States. ICE responded by creating a risky and dangerous situation, and now the Justice Department is doubling down by trying to punish the Congresswoman for doing her job."
WND reported earlier when constitutional expert Jonathan Turley explained McIver's situation is just a symptom, more or less, of a bigger agenda by the Democrats.
He explained the "new defense" being used by Democrats, from city council to Congress, is that "their official duties include obstructing the official functions of the federal government."
"The latest claimant of this license is Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a protest at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. McIver is shown on video forcing her way into an ICE facility and striking and shoving agents in her path," he said.
He said officials were able to subdue the incursion quickly.
But the messaging from McIver was that she could do what for other citizens would be "trespass and assault" because of her "legislative oversight" privileges as a member of Congress.
Her comments were a reprise of what other Democrats already have demanded.
"Rep. Alexandria Ocacio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) declared 'You lay a finger on someone – on Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the representatives that were there – you lay a finger on them, we're going to have a problem,'" the report noted.
And Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., "ominously warned the federal government that Democrats would bring down the house if it tried to charge McIver."
He said, "It's a red line. They know better than to go down that road."
He continued, "Even judges are claiming the same license. In Wisconsin, Judge Hannah Dugan has been charged with obstructing a federal arrest of an illegal immigrant who appeared in her courtroom. Dugan heard about agents waiting outside in the hallway to arrest the man and went outside to confront the agents. She told them to speak to the Chief Judge and that they needed a different warrant. The agents complied and the Chief Judge confirmed that they could conduct the arrest. In the interim, however, Dugan led the man out a non-public door and facilitated his escape."
The fault in making the "oversight" claim is that the law does not allow even members of Congress to have unauthorized access to secure federal facilities. Members of Congress can subpoena the executive branch, or get a court order, but they "do not have immunity from criminal laws in unilaterally forcing their way into any federal office or agency," he said.
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'There is perhaps no area where the media is more willing to lie, mislead, and obfuscate than when it comes to immigration enforcement'
National Public Radio, in a fight against President Donald Trump to keep millions of taxpayer dollars coming despite its leftist ideology that offends millions of Americans and pushes political talking points as news, has unleashed a tearjerker headlined, "A journalist known for covering immigration is arrested by ICE."
However, to reprise Paul Harvey's famous one-liner, the "rest of the story," from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, notes that Mario Guevara, a Salvadoran national was arrested because he is "in our country ILLEGALLY."
The government statement pointed out Guevara "was arrested by Dekalb County, Georgia police for willful OBSTRUCTION after he refused to comply with local police orders to move out of the middle of the street. Following his arrest by local authorities, ICE placed a detainer on him. Following his release, he was turned over to ICE custody and has been placed in removal proceedings.'
Other responses, collected by Twitchy included:
"Example number 6,302,903,231 of what is wrong with American 'journalism.'"
"This is exactly why @NPR needs to be defunded."
"There is perhaps no area where the media is more willing to lie, mislead, and obfuscate than when it comes to immigration enforcement."
"Articles like this is why I don't want to fund npr."
Ironically, a lawyer representing three Colorado-based NPR stations suing over President Trump's executive order regarding defunding public media, according to his bio, "Steve Zanbserg," just unleashed a commentary at Complete Colorado insisting that it was unfair to "punish" the tax-supported organizations for what he claims is their "private speech."
He discusses now the taxpayer money, a "benefit" to selected groups like NPR and such, cannot be withheld based on a dislike of "the content of private speech."
He said NPR and its cohorts are private and nonprofit groups, yet it is only those groups that have benefited from public subsidies: Hundreds of other general news organizations, including those that are nonprofits, have not.
He explains, "To make the obvious unconstitutionality of Trump's executive order clear, consider this hypothetical: a future Democratic president signs an executive order commanding the IRS to withdraw tax-exempt status from any religious or non-profit organization that publicly opposes a Democratic party priority. No problem, right? After all, the argument is that no non-profit organization (e.g. the Catholic Church or the NRA) is entitled to a federal tax exemption, a form of public subsidy. If so, the government would be free to withhold that completely discretionary benefit — one that increases the burden on all non-exempt taxpayers — exclusively because it disagrees with those organizations' speech, right? No, of course not."
Yet, of course, that is almost exactly what Barack Obama's IRS did back in the 2008 election, when it deliberately withheld IRS status approvals for organizations that disagreed with Democrat talking points at that time. The IRS notably demanded from applicants details about the subject of their prayers, and much more.
The IRS eventually paid damages to some victims of its campaign, orchestrated by, among others, Lois Lerner.
Zanbserg continued, "The above hypothetical is not meant to say, nor even to suggest, that Trump's claim that NPR and PBS programming 'fuel[s] partisanship and left-wing propaganda' is even remotely accurate. In fact, it is not. But that is utterly beside the point. Even if it were true — that these two private organizations produced decidedly 'biased' or one-sided journalism — the First Amendment unmistakably prohibits any government official from withholding a federal benefit in retaliation for his/her displeasure with the viewpoints presented by those speakers. And that's why the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging the lawfulness of Trump's executive order should, and will, prevail."
He said he believes in "subsidies" for "public media" so that reporters don't worry about angering the folks who pay them, and "to ensure all Americans are served even when it's not commercially profitable."
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Assuring members of the Christian faith that laws that specifically target religious practices "have no place in our society," federal officials have sued the state of Washington over its attack on religion.
The state has adopted a new law requiring Catholic priests, as well as other ministers, to tattle to police should they hear of a possible offense during a confession, which before now had been exempt from mandatory reporting.
"Laws that explicitly target religious practices such as the Sacrament of Confession have no place in our society," explained Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general.
The DOJ filed a complaint in federal court in Washington arguing that the state's new law violates the First and 14th Amendments by compelling clergy to report what they learn in confession or face criminal penalties.
The Washington Examiner said, "Confession is one of the sacraments of the Catholic Church. Disclosing any information a parishioner shares during these sessions is grounds for the excommunication of a priest from the Catholic Church. However, if a priest fails to report suspected abuse, even if they learn of it during confession, they could face almost a year in jail and a $5,000 fine."
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has not only testified before Congress on constitutional disputes, but represented members in court in those fights, pointed out the state's decision to alter the confessional requirements of the church.
"The Democrats have added to the four stages of the confession. Examination, confession, absolution, and penance may now be followed by incarceration," he explained.
The state's attempt is a direct attack on the church, the DOJ said.
"SB 5375 unconstitutionally forces Catholic priests in Washington to choose between their obligations to the Catholic Church and their penitents or face criminal consequences," Dhillon said.
"The Justice Department will not sit idly by when states mount attacks on the free exercise of religion."
Gov. Bob Ferguson has pledged to enforce the violation of the rights of clergy members.
They would be required to report to police any "reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect."
Most states exempt clergy when information is obtained during a religious confession.
Democrats in Washington refused.
The DOJ now contends that violates religious canon law, which strictly forbids breaching the seal of confession under penalty of excommunication.
The DOJ said part of the problem was that the law deliberately interferes with the religious requirements.
A lawsuit over the law had been filed just day earlier by lawyers for multiple Orthodox churches.
The DOJ first began investigating the law last month, warning that it "appears on its face to violate the First Amendment."
The churches' lawyer said, "The First Amendment guarantees that governments cannot single out religious believers for worse treatment. Washington is targeting priests by compelling them to break the sacred confidentiality of confession while protecting other confidential communications, like those between attorneys and their clients. That's rank religious discrimination. We are urging the court to swiftly restore this constitutionally protected freedom of churches and priests in Washington state."
WND previously reported when Democrats in Washington state "declared open war on Christianity, and the Catholic Church has responded with a volley that includes its commitment to defy a new law."
Turley noted the law is "blatantly unconstitutional."
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In the wake of President Donald Trump's military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities Saturday, Republicans in Congress are at odds over the constitutionality of the military action without congressional approval.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said: "The President made the right call, and did what he needed to do.
"Leaders in Congress were aware of the urgency of this situation and the Commander-in-Chief evaluated that the imminent danger outweighed the time it would take for Congress to act.
"The world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, which chants 'Death to America,' simply could not be allowed the opportunity to obtain and use nuclear weapons.
"The President fully respects the Article I power of Congress, and tonight's necessary, limited, and targeted strike follows the history and tradition of similar military actions under presidents of both parties."
But a fellow Republican, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, said the dropping of 12 bunker buster bombs in a precision strike on three nuclear sites was "not constitutional."
Massie responded directly to Johnson's opinion, saying: "Why didn't you call us back from vacation to vote on military action if there was a serious threat to our country?"
"I introduced a War Powers Resolution on Tuesday, while Congress was on vacation. We would have had plenty of time to debate and vote on this."
Massie added: "When two countries are bombing each other daily in a hot war, and a third country joins the bombing, that's an act of war.
"I'm amazed at the mental gymnastics being undertaken by neocons in DC (and their social media bots) to say we aren't at war… so they can make war."
As WorldNetDaily reported, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocaio-Cortez, D-N.Y., says Trump should be impeached due to the strike.
"The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers," she indicated.
"He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."
Fox News host Mark Levin noted: "See how the media keep quoting the Democrats and a handful of ignorant Republicans about the constitutionality of President Trump's power to order a strike on Iran's nuclear sites?"
Meanwhile, President Trump warned further U.S. military action would be coming should Iran retaliate against the U.S.:
"ANY RETALIATION BY IRAN AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL BE MET WITH FORCE FAR GREATER THAN WHAT WAS WITNESSED TONIGHT. THANK YOU! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES."
Numerous presidents of both major political parties have taken military action against countries without congressional approval in recent years, including Democrat Barack Obama launching strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.