Trump flew into a rage, abandoning decorum to shout angrily.
Disagreement erupted between Trump and a congressman named Bill Cassidy, also a Republican and one of Trump's own allies, over a resolution aimed at limiting the president's war powers.
The exchange roughly went like this:
Trump: Why are you supporting restrictions on my war powers?
Cassidy: Americans thought this war would last four weeks, but it's already gone on four months—now you owe us an explanation.
These words enraged Trump, who then shouted at Cassidy. But Cassidy wasn’t someone easily intimidated—he immediately shouted back.
This incident is essentially a showdown between the presidency and Congress over war powers, a dispute that has persisted for decades. The U.S. Constitution clearly grants Congress the power to declare war, while the president serves as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. After the Vietnam War, Congress passed the War Powers Act in an attempt to constrain unilateral presidential military action. However, successive U.S. presidents have often evaded these constraints by citing "self-defense" or "emergency situations." The backdrop to Trump’s heated argument with Bill Cassidy is that, since 1973, both chambers of Congress have jointly passed such a resolution for the first time—a strong institutional pushback against presidential war powers.
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