Although even some Republicans have grown concerned about the vast war-making powers the Trump administration has flexed in recent days, the president and his allies are hearing none of it. On Thursday morning, Donald Trump defended his unchecked power to use military force, suggesting that Congressional oversight would amount to “presidential harassment.” “Hope that all House Republicans will vote against Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s War Powers Resolution,” he tweeted, likening it to the House vote last month to impeach him. He was parroted by Mike Pence, who told the Today show that giving lawmakers details about the decision-making leading up to last week’s strike could “compromise those sources and methods.” He added, convincingly, “Those of us who have seen all the evidence, that saw the evidence in real time, know that President Trump made the right decision.”

The PR push from the White House comes after two Republican senators—Rand Paul and Mike Lee—expressed discontent at being kept out of the loop. “The Administration needs to bring any discussion of war with Iran to the American people and their representatives in Congress, as the Constitution requires,” Paul tweeted Tuesday. During a press appearance on Wednesday, both lawmakers said they would support a resolution being put forth by Democrat Tim Kaine to limit Trump’s power to act on Iran. Lee said he changed his mind after an “absolutely insane” briefing by the administration about the intelligence that justified the strike. “I still haven’t had questions answered that I came into that briefing expecting to ask,” Lee told reporters, irate. “They had to leave after 75 minutes while they were in the process of telling us that we need to be good little boys and girls and run along and not debate this in public.” (During a press appearance Thursday, Trump said he “gets along great” with Lee and has “never seen him like that.”)

Pelosi, too, sounded off in the wake of the briefing. “Members of Congress have serious, urgent concerns about the Administration’s decision to engage in hostilities against Iran and about its lack of strategy moving forward,” the House Speaker said in a statement Wednesday. “Our concerns were not addressed by the President’s insufficient War Powers Act notification and by the Administration’s briefing today.”

A vote on the resolution is expected to take place Thursday. Ergo, Trump’s allies are doing all they can to cast the Senators’ concerns as ridiculous. “I can’t think of anything dumber than allowing Congress to take over our foreign policy,” Fox News contributor Sarah Sanders said on the network Thursday morning. “The last thing we want to do is push powers into Congress’ hands and take them away from the president.” This, of course, illustrates Lee’s precise complaint: that Republicans are being asked to fall in line, leaving a matter of grave importance—and one in which the Constitution mandates Congress should have a say—in Trump’s uniquely unreliable hands. The resolution’s fate is unclear, but it could hinge on the GOP reaction to Pence’s, Trump’s and Sanders’s united front.

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