Cory Booker calls both parties ‘feckless’ for ceding war powers to Trump

Democratic US senator Cory Booker criticised both parties for ceding congressional war powers to Donald Trump, calling them 'feckless' and warning their decision could embolden the president to attack Cuba, North Korea and other countries. 'I’m going to be one of those Democrats [who] say I think both parties have been feckless in allowing the growth of the power of the presidency,' Booker said on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.

He added that nothing Barack Obama did while in the White House — or what Trump did before his first presidency ended in defeat to Joe Biden — was 'in any way related to what we’re seeing right now'. Booker pointed to US military strikes the president has ordered in Nigeria, Venezuela and Iran since Christmas, and called the war that the US and Israel started in Iran on 28 February — when a missile strike killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — 'the biggest military engagement of our country since the war in Afghanistan'.

Efforts in Congress to curb the campaign have faltered.

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