Few people inside the administration knew the president was moving forward with plans for the attack, even late last week.

A Washington Post poll shows a significant surge in Republican support following Trump’s airstrikes in Iran over its nuclear program.

Cortez, a Bronx Democrat, went a step further and said that Trump's military actions without congressional authorization were "absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment." Those assertions have reignited a decades-old debate about the limits of the president's authority over the use of military force.