Welcome to the Cato podcast. I am your host for today's episode. My name is Catherine Thompson,

and I have the distinct honor to serve as the senior fellow on the defense and foreign policy team here.

Today I am joined by a distinguished guest, Matt Duss, who is Executive Vice President for the Center for

International Policy and former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders.

Matt's work has been widely published, including in the New York Times, The Washington Post,

Foreign Affairs, the nation, the American prospect and foreign policy.

Not only is Matt a distinguished caller and thought leader, but he is a friend

who I was honored to work closely with on war powers issues in the United States Senate when I

worked for Senator Mike Lee. Welcome, Matt. Thank you so much. Great to see you and great to be here.

Awesome. Well, today's conversation, you know, just to sort of set the scene on what we're

going to talk about today

is really a discussion of something that, you know, you and I are familiar with Matt, but it's

re-emerging on the scene in Washington, and that is the conversation around war powers. The Trump

administration's recent unauthorized engagements to strike drugats in the Caribbean, use of military force in

Venezuela, contemplation of U.S. force in Greenland, and then, of course, the topic that is on

everyone's minds and in every political newsletter this morning, a possible campaign against Iran.

You know, Congress has in response to many of these activities, you know, attempted to reassert its role as the only branch of our nation's government with the enumerated power to declare war.

Senators Kane and Paul have offered resolutions on Venezuela, and they have offered, as of this morning, they have offered a resolution

on, in response to the administration's potential action in Iran, same with Representative

Massey and Representative Ro Khanna. They have also offered in Iran war powers resolution.

So I thought that we would talk today about sort of our assessments on the congressional

tactics and the political dynamics at play in this war powers debate.

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