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Issues like this have been around for decades. Congress gave the president power to take some actions in emergency situations... but it isn't up to individual congress members to decide whether or not they agree that an emergency exists - the president has that power.

The Obama/Biden administration make scores (hundreds?) of strikes on foreign countries without congressional approval. One could argue that perhaps there was an imminent threat in all of those cases while there was not one this time around - but Congress did not leave that open for their own review (let alone the review of individual members of the minority) when they delegated some of their power to the executive.