Jeffries fears Trump risks ‘forever war’ after strike kills Iran’s supreme leader

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said President Donald Trump had failed to outline how the U.S. would avoid an extended foreign entanglement as it launched a strike on Saturday morning that targeted the country’s leadership and killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

“What comes next is unclear because the Trump administration has not been able to articulate a plan to ensure that U.S. forces are not entangled in a forever war in the Middle East,” Jeffries said in an interview with NPR on Saturday.

“This notion of regime change has never been successful, as most recently indicated by its failure in Iraq, its failure in Libya and its failure in Afghanistan,” Jeffries added, listing areas of past U.S. intervention.

Jeffries comments come as Democrats have criticized the Trump Administration for, in their view, unilaterally taking the U.S. into a military conflict around the will of Congress.

Jeffries and other Democrats plan to force consideration of a resolution next week that would restrict Trump’s ability to take further military action against Iran without lawmaker consent.

“The resolution would require immediate termination of any additional military action absent the President making his case to the American people,” Jeffries said.

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