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Tulsi Gabbard: “This provision sidesteps Congress's constitutional…”

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Tulsi Gabbard Addresses Hawaiʻi Democrats at 2018 State Convention in Waikoloa

Published | Video Starts at 09:06

… parties who just last week tucked a hidden provision in the big defense bill that passes every year that authorizes the United States to go to war with Iran, a This provision sidesteps Congress's constitutional responsibility to declare war. shutting out any input from the American people and providing after the fact, license to interventionist wars that we're waging with countries like Saudi Arabia and Yemen, killing tens of … (09:06–09:16)

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Asserts that the provision bypasses Congress's constitutional role in declaring war.

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