The Senate eyes a formal end to the Iraq War, and a reassertion of Congress' power -- Sydney Park

Twenty years after the first bombs were dropped on Baghdad, in a U.S. invasion, the Senate has voted 67-28 to officially started debate to repeal the congressional authorization that justified the war. This vote is really just symbolic because combat operations in the Iraq War ended over ten years ago, but Senate supporters emphasize it's important for Congress to use its constitutional power to start and end wars; this is basically because as long as Congress didn't say the war was over, any leader could have abused the state of war, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. However, the end of the Iraq War does not strip the president of his legal authority to conduct counterterrorist operations around the world, and there are still about 2,500 US active forces in Iraq, and those soldiers have taken part in nearly three 36 partnered raids with the Iraq counterterrorism forces against Isis in the last month.'

I think it's also interesting how Democratic are united in support of this legislation, but the Republicans do not have a unified front; this rift in the Republican Party is really a difference in ideologies between a more conservative foreign policy and an "American First" foreign policy, which is more non-interventionist, which NPR credits to former President Donald Trump.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164744031/the-senate-eyes-a-formal-end-to-the-iraq-war-and-a-reassertion-of-congress-power