Top Capitol Hill Democrats, and a small number of Republicans, watched in alarm Saturday as the administration launched a major US assault on Iran, decrying President Donald Trump’s call for the overthrow of another foreign government without their expressed approval.

Lawmakers could vote as soon as this week on a resolution aimed at restricting President Trump's military authority against Iran.

President Trump on Monday slammed Democrats for criticizing his administration’s strikes in Iran over the weekend. “The Radical Left Democrats, a Party that has completely lost its way, are

HARTFORD — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Monday that President Donald Trump bypassed Congress and overstepped constitutional war-powers laws by ordering weekend bombing strikes on Iran without prior authorization.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will stand before Congress on Tuesday to deliver the annual State of the Union address to a suddenly transformed nation .

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but in 1973, in the wake of the Vietnam War, Congress enacted the War Powers Resolution, or the War Powers Act, in an effort to share that power using collective judgment when deploying troops that also allows presidents to take action under certain circumstances,

"Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved," Trump said March 1.

Sen. Tim Kaine pushes war powers resolution to limit Iran military action as constitutional debate over executive authority and congressional oversight intensifies.