{"id":641582,"date":"2026-04-30T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641582\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:48:09","slug":"king-charles-queen-camilla-conclude-us-state-visit-trump-floats-new-plan-to-reopen-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641582\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles, Queen Camilla conclude US state visit; Trump floats new plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is constrained in its war on Iran by the 1973 War Powers Resolution law, which requires several notification and approval steps meant to keep a commander-in-chief\u2019s military powers in check.<\/p>\n<p>One of its provisions is that military action authorised by the president without Congress approval must end after 60 days or has declared war. That 60-day clock runs out on Friday (US time).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The White House has not indicated whether Donald Trump will seek an extension under the War Powers law.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4194792cbd8742a883c1dfdcf0abd412c45c61dc.png\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>The White House has not indicated whether Donald Trump will seek an extension under the War Powers law.AP<\/p>\n<p>One White House official said the administration was in \u201cactive conversations\u201d with lawmakers on addressing the deadline, but did not elaborate. The official was granted anonymity to discuss private deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>The administration can request a 30-day extension of Trump\u2019s order by telling Congress in writing that there\u2019s a continued need for military action. The White House, which has long stressed that the president is working towards a diplomatic option in Iran, hasn\u2019t indicated publicly whether Trump would seek that extension.<\/p>\n<p>US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the ceasefire postpones the deadline for securing approval.<\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration is constrained in its war on Iran by the 1973 War Powers Resolution law, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-641582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}