Aguiar-Curry’s resolution urging Congress to take ‘big nuke button’ away from Trump passes Legislature

SACRAMENTO – Assembly Joint Resolution 30, authored by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), was approved by the State Senate this past week.

The resolution urges Congress to reassert its role in approving acts of war in a nuclear first-strike, by passing H.R. 669, 24-8.

H.R. 669, authored by California Representative Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), would prohibit the president from unilaterally authorizing the deployment of nuclear weapons in an offensive attack absent express authorization from Congress.

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