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The AUMF Is Still in Effect, but It's Not the Basis of the Anti-Isis Campaign.

Benjamin Whittis is a senior editor at the Brookings Institution. He says even though President Obama pledged to get rid of the AUMF, it's still very much in effect. It was the basis for the anti-ISIS campaign or one of the bases for theAnti-ISIS campaign. And so what the Trump administration has done, he says, and by the way, they were not the first to do this.

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