Shortly after the White House issued a formal veto threat warning the House against voting to repeal the 2002 Iraq war authorization, President Donald Trump contradicted his staff. The president tweeted that lawmakers should “vote with their hearts” on repealing the 2002 authorization, a longtime bete noire for Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
While the House passed Lee’s legislation 236-166 today, only 11 Republicans found it in their hearts to support repealing the authorization that the White House used as the legal justification to kill Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad earlier this month.
