Nobody voted for this.
60+ days of unauthorized war in Iran. Peace talks stalled. Costs rising for every American family.
Voters asked for lower costs and better wages.
The president delivered a war nobody asked for and a bill nobody can afford.
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Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|California District 49
Mike Levin
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Voting Record — 534
Yes44%
No54%
Present1%
Not Voting1%
Party align97%
Cross-party3%
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Mike Levin
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratCalifornia District 49
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Kash Patel spent 10 months investigating a seashell photo before making an arrest.
He has spent more than a year refusing to arrest a single Epstein client named in the files.
That is the choice. That is the priority.
This is your reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.
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Today, Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “the 60-day clock pauses or stops in a ceasefire” and therefore the Iran War is not subject to Congressional authorization.
Here’s why he’s flat wrong:
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60 days.
That is how long American forces have been at war with Iran without authorization from the United States Congress.
Today, the clock written into the 1973 War Powers Resolution runs out.
Tomorrow, this war becomes flatly illegal.
Susan Collins crossed the aisle today and said the 60-day clock is “not a suggestion. It is a requirement.”
Pete Hegseth does not get to rewrite the law because following it is inconvenient.
The clock does not pause.
Tomorrow is the deadline.
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In the decades since this law was written, no president of either party has ever tried this argument.
Not Reagan, either Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden, or even Trump in his first term.
Hegseth made it up because the deadline is tomorrow and he’s looking for an easy way out.
The War Powers Resolution says the President has 60 calendar days to get approval from Congress or end the fighting.
The U.S. Navy is blockading Iranian ports right now. You cannot claim the fighting is “paused” while American warships are stopping Iranian ships by force. Both things can't be true.
Today, Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “the 60-day clock pauses or stops in a ceasefire” and therefore the Iran War is not subject to Congressional authorization.
Here’s why he’s flat wrong:
The President started an unauthorized war with Iran, and Eric Trump just landed a $24 million Defense Department deal. And a company in Don Jr.’s portfolio just secured a $620 million Pentagon loan.
Maybe it’s a coincidence.
More likely it’s corruption.
This is your reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.
DOGE was supposed to slash waste. Independent audits found the receipts were cooked. Not one American got a dollar back.
Meanwhile, bills are up across the board.
And House Republicans? Looking the other way while waste, fraud, and abuse run wild in Washington.
Powell got prosecuted for transparent spending. Trump gets a blank check, anonymous donors, foreign steel, tariff favors, and now your tax dollars too.
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One known donor is ArcelorMittal, a foreign company which donated $37 million in steel. Two days after Trump praised the gift, his administration cut in half the tariffs on automotive steel from ArcelorMittal’s Canadian plant.
Powell renovated Fed buildings with Fed money, every dollar accounted for in public.
Trump bulldozed the East Wing and is building his ballroom through a secret contract that hides donors and shields the White House from any conflict-of-interest review.
Trump spent months accusing the Fed Chair of fraud over a $2.5 billion renovation of Fed buildings. He demanded a criminal probe. A federal judge threw it out, finding “essentially zero evidence” of any crime. The Justice Department dropped the case last week.
Donald Trump promised for months that his White House ballroom would not cost taxpayers a dime. Now Lindsey Graham has introduced a bill to spend $400 million in taxpayer money on the project. So much for private donors footing the bill.
Compare that to how Trump treated Jerome Powell.
This is not about whether Iran is a bad actor.
This is about whether one man gets to start a war on his own.
The answer, in America, has always been no.
In the courts, members of Congress have standing to sue when the executive nullifies our constitutional role, and that option must be on the table the moment this deadline passes.
We will fight this on every front.
Legislatively, I will keep voting for every War Powers Resolution that comes to the floor and pressing Republican colleagues who once claimed to care about executive overreach.
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Voting History534 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
534 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-07 | H.R. 26 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-02-06 | H.R. 27 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-02-06 | H.R. 27 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-02-05 | H. Res. 93 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-05 | H. Res. 93 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-05 | H.R. 776 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-04 | H.R. 43 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-23 | H.R. 21 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-23 | H.R. 21 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-23 | H.R. 471 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-01-23 | H.R. 375 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | S. 5 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | H.R. 165 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | H. Res. 53 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | H. Res. 53 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | H.R. 187 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-21 | H.R. 186 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-16 | H.R. 30 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-01-16 | H.R. 30 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 33 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 144 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 164 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 28 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 28 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 153 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 152 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-13 | H.R. 192 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-09 | H.R. 23 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-01-07 | H.R. 29 (119th) | Final passage | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | Motion to Commit with Instructions | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Election of the Speaker | NOT_VOTING | — | — | Johnson (LA) |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Call by States | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.
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