1. United States
2. Ind.
3. Letter

Dear Representative, I am writing as your constituent to demand that you exercise your constitutional duty regarding the ongoing war with Iran. The President Was Manipulated Into This War On April 7, 2026, the New York Times published a detailed account by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman revealing how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally pitched President Trump on war with Iran during a classified Situation Room meeting on February 11. Netanyahu presented a four-part plan claiming Iran’s missile program could be destroyed in weeks, that the regime could not close the Strait of Hormuz, that popular uprisings would follow, and that regime change was achievable. The President’s response, per the reporting, was: “Sounds good to me.” His own advisors knew this was reckless. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the regime change premise “farcical.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said bluntly that it was “bullshit.” General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, warned that this was “standard operating procedure for the Israelis — they oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed.” Vice President Vance told the President directly that he thought it was a bad idea. None of it mattered. Three Presidents Refused This Exact Pitch This was not a new idea. Former Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed on April 11 that Netanyahu made substantially the same presentation to Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. All three refused. Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken corroborated this pattern, describing how Netanyahu pushed for a preemptive U.S.-backed strike on Hezbollah immediately after October 7, 2023, and was told no by President Biden. Three consecutive administrations — spanning both parties — assessed this approach as too dangerous. President Trump was the only one who said yes. The Strait of Hormuz and the Consequences Netanyahu assured the President that Iran would be unable to close the Strait of Hormuz. As of this writing, that claim has proven false. The escalation in the Strait of Hormuz is unacceptable and is directly threatening global energy markets and American economic stability. The consequences that every prior administration anticipated are now materializing — exactly as the intelligence community warned they would. What I Am Asking You to Do You have a constitutional obligation to act. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution vests the power to declare war in Congress — not in the President, and certainly not in a foreign head of state. I am asking you to: 1. Invoke the War Powers Resolution. Introduce or support a resolution directing the withdrawal of U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran that were never authorized by Congress. 2. Hold hearings. The American people deserve a public accounting of how a foreign leader’s presentation — one the President’s own intelligence chiefs called farcical — led to a war that Congress did not authorize. 3. Consider all constitutional remedies. If the President lacks the judgment to resist manipulation by a foreign government into an unauthorized war — over the objections of his own CIA director, Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Vice President — then Congress must evaluate whether this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors as defined in Article II, Section 4. The American people did not vote for this war. The President campaigned explicitly on not involving the United States in new wars. Three prior presidents looked at the same proposal and said no. The President’s own advisors told him not to do it. He did it anyway, on the word of a foreign leader, and Americans are now bearing the consequences. You were elected to represent the interests of the United States of America — not the United States of Israel. When a foreign prime minister can walk into the Situation Room, deliver a presentation that the CIA director calls farcical, and walk out with a war — something has gone fundamentally wrong with American sovereignty. Your oath is to the Constitution, not to a foreign government’s strategic objectives. Do your job. Use the powers the Constitution gives you.