Brian Finucane
The U.S. president has significant latitude to use military force even in the absence of congressional authorization and even when such action would violate international law. Through its military interventions in the Middle East since Oct. 7, 2023, the Biden administration has both further eroded the existing guardrails constraining presidential war powers and possibly bequeathed a new conflict with the Houthis to his successor.
Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s oft-deployed slogan of “no new wars” and claims that United States was at peace during his first administration, Washington both engaged in new conflicts and expanded and intensified existing ones without fresh congressional authorization under this leadership between 2017 and 2021.
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