LINCOLN — As U.S. B-2 bombers headed home from bombing three key Iranian nuclear sites this weekend, Nebraska’s federal delegation cheered the Trump administration’s strikes as a “necessary step” and “something that needed to happen.”

The Nebraska delegation once again emphasized that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon, as Trump — as well the delegation — touted the U.S. strikes as a success, because Iran’s nuclear sites are “completely and fully obliterated.” The Trump administration has confirmed the existence of a classified U.S. report saying that Iran’s nuclear program was set back only a few months by the bombings and missile strikes but called the assessment that was shared first in a CNN report “flat-out wrong.”

When asked about the leak, Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a retired Air Force brigadier general, had a simple statement: “Iran can never get a nuclear weapon.”

Congressional briefings on the strikes were postponed on Tuesday. National Democrats and some Republicans have questioned Trump’s authority to take military action without congressional approval. Others have questioned the success of the strikes.

“There’s zero evidence that I’ve seen that the nuclear program was completely and totally obliterated as Donald Trump has claimed,” U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said during a news conference Monday in Washington.

Jeffries strongly opposed Trump joining the war between Iran and Israel without first securing the support of Congress. But he sidestepped questions about whether the decision was an impeachable offense or whether he would support a bipartisan resolution to limit the president’s power for additional military action against Iran.

House Speaker Mike Johnson argued Tuesday that the War Powers Act, the 1973 federal law requiring congressional authority to wage war, is unconstitutional. He said the Iran-specific proposal would fail in the House.

Bacon said that additional U.S. actions might be needed if the strikes were ineffective.

“I don’t think [Trump] wants to do this again unless there’s evidence that these strikes were not effective,” Bacon told reporters in a Wednesday press call. “Then maybe you’ll have to reconsider.”

U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb, said after the strikes that Trump ‘took the necessary steps to keep a nuclear weapon out of Iran’s reach.” Fischer also released a statement that Iran must end its nuclear enrichment program and return to the negotiating table.

U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts said the strikes “mean Iran is further from possessing a nuclear weapon.” Republican U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, who represents Nebraska’s largely rural 3rd District, said Trump “acted decisively.”

GOP U.S. Rep Mike Flood, who represents eastern Nebraska’s 1st District, said the strikes  “will not only help keep America safe but can provide peace and stability around the world.” Flood later told the ABC Affiliate KETV that ‘strikes needed to happen.’

After Iran’s choreographed attack on an American-operated air base in Qatar, seen by some as an off-ramp to the current ceasefire between Iran and Israel. Earlier this month, Israel launched an attack on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure, with aerial attacks on Tehran targeting its nuclear and military infrastructure.

While the delegation members said they hadn’t yet been briefed, they are following Trump’s lead on messaging about the conflict. The delegation had already hinted that they planned to support whatever Trump did.

Congressional briefings are scheduled for later this week.

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