Tell your MoC's - Don't back down on National Defense Authorization Act that restricts the President's war powers.
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Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
In the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference committee negotiations I urge you to continue holding the principles adopted by majority vote for HR.2500. In addition to no authorization of funds for Trump's border wall, the final bill must include repeal of the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs, no military action against Iran without congressional authorization, no U.S. participation in or funding for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen, and no transfer of nuclear technology to the Saudis.
Furthermore, I support the October 23rd letter to House and Senate Democrats signed by 44 progressive organizations. And if American participation in the Yemen war is not blocked by the NDAA, I urge you to sue the Trump Administration for violating Article I of the U.S. Constitution by continuing the war even after Congress voted against it.
Context
It is now being reported that House and Senate negotiators are trying to finalize a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that may be voted on before the Thanksgiving recess. The only real power Congress has is in the Power of the Purse and the NDAA is the time and place for them to at long last exert their foreign-policy powers against an unrestrained autocrat who – if left unchecked by congressional authority – will unilaterally take ever more dangerous and outrageous actions.
After the 9/11 attack in 2001, Congress passed an Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda who were responsible. That AUMF has since spawned 18 years of war in more than two dozen countries against a wide variety of individuals, groups, and governments which have left us less safe and more vulnerable to terror than before. Based on phony information, in 2002 Congress passed an AUMF authorizing Bush II's Iraq War where American troops are still in harms way after all rosy the political predictions and promises have proven to be false.
From the springboard of those two AUMFs, we have been drawn into participating in and supporting Saudi Arabia's war of genocide in Yemen despite majorities in both houses of Congress voting to end our involvement. Recently, Trump unilaterally shifted U.S. troops from fighting ISIS and defending our Kurdish allies to occupying the Syrian oil fields in clear violation of international law and custom. So long as Congress lacks the will to exert their constitutionally mandated authority, Trump will continue to act and react unilaterally for his personal benefit regardless of harm to our national security.
H.R.2500 - National Defense Authorization Act
Joint Letter to Congressional Democrats: Oppose NDAA That Doesn’t Put Checks on Trump, 10/23/19
Why Congress Needs to Reassert its Power to End Endless War, 11/14/19 (AFSC)