The White House announced that it supports a measure in the House of Representatives to repeal a law passed in 2002 that authorized the administration of former US President George W. Bush (Jr.) to enter the war on Iraq.
A statement from the White House Office of Management and Budget said it supports repealing the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, given that the United States has no ongoing military activities that rely on it alone as a domestic legal basis, adding that its repeal is likely to have little impact on the country. current military operations.
The statement added that the US president - moreover - "is committed to working with Congress to ensure that legacy authorizations to use military force are replaced with an appropriate narrow and specific framework to ensure that we continue to protect Americans from terrorist threats."
Biden, then a Delaware senator, was one of 77 senators who voted in favor of the law in October 2002. Critics say the law is out of date, while supporters say repealing it would hamper counterterrorism operations.
Since the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq in 2011, the Obama and Trump administrations have used the decision to justify various operations in the Middle East - including the air strikes that targeted ISIS in Iraq and Syria in 2014, and the operation that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. In January 2020.
The House of Representatives has voted three times to repeal the law since 2019, but the issue was not addressed by the Senate, which was under Republican control.
And last March, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 28-19 to advance the repeal bill. The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the final paragraph of the bill later this week.
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