House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Speaker Kevin McCarthy were among the no votes on the resolution led by Rep. Matt Gaetz and backed by progressives.
to give legal cover for airstrikes and ground operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere.
"With ISIS suppressed," Grim and Boguslaw wrote, the Biden administration"has suggested the purpose of the occupation is to act as a bulwark against Iran." Pointing to U.S. officials' claim that the presence of American troops prevents Iranian forces from establishing a"land bridge" to shuttle weapons to allies in Lebanon, Grim and Boguslaw observed that Iran"already has a direct 'land bridge' through eastern Syria to Lebanon; the U.S. occupation merely adds some time to the Iranian truckers' journey.
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