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13 October
5:16 pm

For the first sixty days, the president as commander in chief, has wide discretion when it comes to military conflicts. After that point, he is supposed to have congressional authorization to engage in a war, a military conflict.

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Susan Collins, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 3 (WABI/WAGM)

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Why we checked itThis is a specific characterization of how the War Powers Act works — the 60-day threshold and the requirement for congressional authorization after that period. The actual text of the War Powers Resolution has specific provisions that may differ from this description.
What we foundThe War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. §§ 1541–1548) is the codified law that precisely matches Collins's claim: the president has operational discretion for 60 days, after which congressional authorization (a declaration of war or an AUMF) is required to continue hostilities.
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