{"id":617739,"date":"2026-05-01T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617739\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:29:07","slug":"what-does-the-war-powers-act-say-and-how-could-it-affect-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617739\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the War Powers Act say and how could it affect the Iran war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"IN5GMRPWI5F63D2FK5OOJHEOO4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Friday marks a significant moment in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, with President Donald Trump facing a key deadline to end the fighting or extend it under the War Powers Resolution. But after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asserted an ongoing ceasefire \u201cpauses\u201d the countdown toward that May 1 deadline \u2014 and as Congress begins a week-long recess \u2014 it\u2019s unclear how the White House will address repeated demands by congressional Democrats that it halt the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday marks a significant moment in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, with President Donald Trump facing a key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-617739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}