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Greg Casar: “The United States Constitution says that the…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Greg Casar Discusses Federal Arrests and Grassroots Politics Under Trump Administration

Published | Video Starts at 05:26

You are now doing so in the Trump administration. Why? We have to be very clear that the United States Constitution says that the president of The United States Constitution says that the president...cannot send our American men and women into war without...the consent of the United States Congress. That's the law. And that's why I, even as a Democrat, would sign on every time and vote every time for resolutions that said President Biden could not unilaterally go to war that way. (05:26–05:43)

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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution requires congressional consent for the president to send troops to war.

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