Michigan's Elissa Slotkin To Lead Bid Limiting Trump In Iran

MICHIGAN — Michigan's Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin will lead an effort in the U.S. House seeking to limit President Donald Trump’s actions in Iran. The move comes days after the president ordered a U.S. airstrike that killed a prominent Iranian general.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the “War Powers Resolution.” The resolution will be introduced and voted on this week.

Slotkin is a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst who specialized in Shia militias and served three tours in the region.

“There is nothing that prepares you for the sound of incoming fire,” Slotkin said following Iranian ballistic missile attacks on two bases in Iraq housing U.S. forces.“Tonight, I'm watching the coverage and thinking of our service members and diplomats who are in harm's way, and about their families back at home worried about them. While we don't yet know the full extent of tonight's military activity, if it's indeed true that Iranians fired conventional ballistic missiles at U.S. targets, it would be unprecedented.”

“We are now in a cycle of escalation that threatens to draw us into wider war. The President and his team should remember the gravity of their responsibilities and be prepared to explain their strategic plan — to include next steps and possible ways to de-escalate. They owe the American public no less.”