The US president opened his remarks at a White House event on artificial intelligence that the US is “doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly.”
Donald Trump said Wednesday that someone asked him to rate on a scale of 10 how well he thought the US was doing in the American-Israeli military operation against Iran and said, “about a 15.”
The House is preparing to vote Thursday on a war powers resolution to halt Trump's attack on Iran, a sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict.
It's the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing the American people in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president's unilateral decision to go to war with Iran.
The tally in the House is expected to be tight, but the outcome will provide an early snapshot of the political support, or opposition, to the US-Israel military operation and Trump's rationale for bypassing Congress, which alone has the power to declare war.
In retaliation, Iran has launched more missiles at Israel and US bases as war in the Middle East enters a sixth day.
