Mike Lee signs on to Bernie Sanders' bill to prevent funding for military intervention in Iran

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(CNN)Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has agreed to co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders' legislation that would freeze funding for any military action in Iran without express approval from Congress.

Sanders, a Vermont independent who's running for the Democratic presidential nomination, introduced the bill shortly after the Trump administration held a classified briefing in which advisers outlined the case for their military strike last week that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

Sanders was sharply critical of the briefing, saying afterward that the administration's briefers gave no proof of any imminent attack by Iran against US targets.

"They are justifying the assassination of Qasem Soleimani by claiming that he was planning 'imminent attacks' on hundreds of Americans in the region and yet they produced no evidence that would justify this claim, not even in a classified setting," Sanders said in a statement.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/11/politics/mike-lee-bernie-sanders-military-iran/index.html

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1. Thanks, Uncle Joe.

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3. Good on Mike Lee

More support would be nice!

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