Reactions were swift. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), criticized Trump, who “promised to bring peace to the Middle East,” he stressed, but “has broken that promise.”

He added that the risk of war has increased dramatically and denounced that “President Trump misled the country about his intentions, failed to seek congressional authorization for the use of military force, and risks involving the United States in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East.”

Meanwhile, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on social media that it was a “disastrous decision by the president” to bomb Iran without authorization, which “constitutes a serious violation of the Constitution and the war powers of Congress.”

Trump “impulsively risked launching a war that could trap us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly impeachable,” said the New York Democrat.

At an event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont announced the news, followed by popular cries of “No more war!”, the former presidential candidate agreed with this claim and stated: “This news I just heard is not only alarming… but it is completely unconstitutional.”

The only entity that can take this country to war is the United States Congress, he said, emphasizing that “the president does not have that right,” although presidents of both parties have carried out military strikes against adversaries without prior legislative approval.

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