Trump's letter tells Congress Iran hostilities 'terminated'

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Nope.

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The legal debate has focused on the Resolutions 60-day clock, which directs the President—absent express Congressional authorization (or the applicability of other limited exceptions) and following an initial 48-hour reporting period—to remove United States Armed Forces within 60 days from “hostilities” or “situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances.”
But as virtually every lawyer recognizes, the operative term, “hostilities,” is an ambiguous standard, which is nowhere defined in the statute.

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My predecessor Monroe Leigh and Defense Department General Counsel Martin Hoffmann responded that, as a general matter, the Executive Branch understands the term “to mean a situation in which units of the U.S. armed forces are actively engaged in exchanges of fire with opposing units of hostile forces.

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On the other hand, as Leigh and Hoffmann suggested, the term should not necessarily be read to include situations where the nature of the mission is limited (i.e., situations that do not “involve the full military engagements with which the Resolution is primarily concerned”); where the exposure of U.S. forces is limited (e.g., situations involving “sporadic military or paramilitary attacks on our armed forces stationed abroad,” in which the overall threat faced by our military is low and where the risk of escalation is therefore limited.
Subsequently, the Executive Branch has reiterated the distinction between full military encounters and more constrained operations, stating that “intermittent military engagements” do not require withdrawal of forces under the Resolutions 60-day rule.


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the military means we are using are limited: This situation does not present the kind of “full military engagement with which the [War Powers] Resolution is primarily concerned.”

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The United States is conducting a massive logistical operation, recently delivering 6,500 tons of military equipment and munitions to Israel in a 24-hour period (April 2026). This includes, through at least two cargo ships and over 30 cargo planes, items like armored vehicles, trucks, and munitions, as part of an intensified effort involving hundreds of transport trucks.

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