This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, April 2nd, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

There may be an appetite in Congress at long last for reigning in the power of the president in making war.

Cato's Gene Healy and John Glazer discussed the wise and hows of repealing specific authorities

granted to the White House after 9-11 that have been on the books for far too long.

There seems to be some movement on ending the AUMFs that we've had on the books for nearly 20 years.

I spoke with Rokana recently and he seemed amenable to the notion that if

Joe Biden himself doesn't at least end US involvement in the war in Afghanistan

within the year that he owns it. So what do you guys think?

Yeah, there actually seems to be some momentum on the hill for repealing old authorizations for the use of military force.

Last week, Congresswoman Barbara Lee's measure to repeal the Iraq War, AUMF, passed out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

There's a similar bill in the Senate for Senators Tim Kane and

Todd Young to repeal the 2002 AUMF and the 1991 Gulf War AumF. There's another measure in the house to repeal the 2002

1991 and Eisenhower era

era 1957 A-U-M-F, all of which is good.

There's also the last week there were dueling hearings in the House Rules Committee and the House

Foreign Affairs Committee on broader Ward Powers reform. So it's almost like

the some folks up there on the Hill are getting interested in doing their jobs and

actually authorizing the wars that

taking control over reclaiming congressional war powers is probably the most

important job that congressmen and women can have.

John?

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