The House and Senate have advanced war powers resolutions aimed at curbing President Donald Trump from continuing the war in Iran. Can a 53-year-old law make a difference? What steps would be required to end the war? PolitiFact explains.

The House approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying the president as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long war that has reordered politics at home and abroad.

President Trump on Thursday panned the House for passing a resolution designed to force him to end the Iran war, calling the action "meaningless." “Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end...