Will this be Don's escape hatch?

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After 60 Days, Republican Patience for the Iran War Is Wearing Thin​

Key Republicans in Congress are growing impatient about the complex and costly conflict in the Middle East as the war reaches its 60-day mark, pivoting after weeks of deferring to President Trump to a more skeptical posture.

While Republican leaders continue to express strong backing for the operation, the shift could lay the groundwork for the G.O.P.-led Congress, which has ceded much of its power to Mr. Trump and declined to exercise any oversight of the war so far, to force a debate on the matter in the coming days and pressure the administration to set the conditions and timeline for a swift withdrawal.

It is unfolding six months before midterm elections in which Republicans risk losing control of Congress, faced with a tough political landscape made more challenging by the unpopular war and the resulting rise in gas prices and consumer goods. Democrats, many of whom have decried the war from the beginning as illegal and an egregious violation of the separation of powers, routinely cite G.O.P. backing for it as evidence that the party is not focused on the needs of Americans.

The increasing nervousness among Republicans has coincided with a statutory deadline reached on Friday for the president to ask Congress for permission to continue the war, which he has declined to do. It also comes as concern about the cost of the conflict is rising and lawmakers are bracing to be asked to approve a request in the tens of billions of dollars or higher to pay for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/trump-war-powers-republicans.html

The regime has tried to make the case that the count on the 60 day grace period before it needs congressional authorization to keep the war going has been paused during the "ceasefire." There's no provision in the War Powers Act for a pause. Once the WH notifies Congress hostilities have begun the clock starts ticking.

If the guy famously known to have an appetite for burgers wants to back out of the war without making any concessions this might afford him the chance. The pressure on congressional R's to break the stalemate causing a global supply chain disruption and soaring gas prices must be enormous. At least it is for those with any hope of being re-elected.