Trump says deadline for Congress to approve Iran war doesn’t apply, claiming hostilities have ‘terminated’……

The administration is making that argument even though Iran maintains its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S

Navy is maintaining a blockade to prevent Iran’s oil tankers from getting out to sea. Trump on Friday echoed Hegseth’s argument, and stressed that other presidents had similarly not sought congressional approval as laid out under the 1973 law.

“Every other president considered it totally unconstitutional, and we agree with that,” Trump said at the White House as he departed for Florida.

Democrats scoffed at the suggestion that May 1 was not the real deadline