Are You Coequal or Not?

Congress must immediately reassert its constitutional authority over decisions of war and military engagement. The Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to declare war. Time and again, that responsibility has been ceded, ignored, or retroactively justified after military action has already begun. This is not only a failure of oversight, but a dangerous erosion of democratic accountability. The War Powers Resolution was designed to prevent exactly this kind of unchecked escalation. If U.S. forces are engaged in hostilities, Congress has a legal and moral obligation to act either by explicitly authorizing such action or by requiring its end within the established timeframe. You must publicly oppose any further unauthorized military escalation, refuse to rely on outdated Authorizations for Use of Military Force that were never intended for current conflicts, and support measures that require explicit congressional approval before continued engagement. Silence or delay in moments like this is not neutrality — it is complicity. Do your job as a coequal branch of government and ensure that decisions of war are not made unilaterally. The effects are already global.