但对大多数共和党议员而言，一条红线已隐约浮现，这将使数十名议员陷入支持党内领袖与遵循国会宪法权力之间的困境。
“我希望看到国会批准向地面部署部队，”佐治亚州共和党众议员里奇·麦考密克告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。不过他补充道，“目前，这只是一次干预行动，与我从政期间奥巴马、克林顿及其他历任总统所采取的行动非常相似。”
此次持续的打击行动已造成伊朗最高领袖及德黑兰镇压政权的其他高级成员死亡，目前为止主要由针对军事目标的协调一致的导弹发射组成。
但特朗普政府并未排除在当地部署美军的可能性，尽管其保证此次行动将是有限的，仅持续数周而非数月或数年。
“总统正在做他应该做的事。……我支持这项政策，”得克萨斯州共和党众议员奇普·罗伊告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“如果在某个时候，这一行动在地面部队部署、预算需求和行动范围方面超出了（当前的情况），那就需要我们介入了，到那时我们会再考虑。”
南卡罗来纳州共和党众议员南希·梅斯表示，她也支持此次行动，但补充道，“如果地面部队介入，我认为那将是一个截然不同的讨论话题。而我们目前还没到那一步。”
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“目前我们是按部就班地推进，看看事态如何发展，但这肯定是我们希望参与讨论的事情，”宾夕法尼亚州共和党众议员瑞安·麦肯齐告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
但他也认为，过早迫使行动结束可能弊大于利。
麦肯齐表示，“一旦总统采取了那项行动——也就是首次行动，如果我们退缩，实际上会让我们更加脆弱，更加不安全，因为伊朗的所有能力仍在，而我们已经开启了这样一场冲突。”
“所以，我们确实需要坚持达成目标，但同时也必须高度警惕，确保行动不会扩大到超出我们能力范围的地步。”
其他人，比如密苏里州共和党众议员马克·阿尔福德，则怀疑是否会走到那一步。
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“我认为我们不会走到那一步。这与伊拉克或阿富汗的情况大不相同。我们现在拥有的能力——我们开发的情报能力，与以色列国防军（IDF）合作的成果——是我们过去所不具备的，”阿尔福德告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“当然，如果真的需要地面部队介入（尽管我认为不会发生这种情况），那将是完全不同的情况。……我们才刚开始行动五天，而我认为到目前为止，我们看到的效果非常显著。”
House Republicans are signaling that they’re largely OK giving President Donald Trump the reins as the U.S. and Israel continue their joint operation against Iran.
But one red line looms on the horizon for most GOP lawmakers, one that would put dozens of them in a difficult position between supporting their party leader and keeping in line with Congress’ constitutional authorities.
“I would like to see congressional approval for boots on the ground,” Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital. He added, however, that “right now, it’s just an intervention, which is very similar to what Obama and Clinton and other presidents throughout my lifetime have done.”
The ongoing strikes, which killed Iran’s supreme leader and other high-ranking members of Tehran’s repressive regime, have so far been comprised of coordinated missile launches on military targets.
But the Trump administration has not ruled out having a U.S. presence on the ground there despite assurances that the mission will be finite and only lasting a matter of weeks rather than months or years.
“The president is doing what he should be doing. … I agree with the policy,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital. “If at some point this extends beyond … in terms of boots on the ground and budgetary need and scope, that starts to then demand our involvement, then we’ll look at it.”
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said she too backed the operation, but added, “If ground troops get involved, I think that’s a very different conversation. That’s not where we are today.”
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“We’re taking it day by day at this point to see how things progress, but that would certainly be something that we would like to be involved in the discussion,” Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital.
But he also argued that forcing the operation to end too early could do more harm than good.
“Once the president has taken that action, that first action, if we were to pull back, it would actually leave us more vulnerable and less safe by leaving all of their capabilities in place but having started a conflict like this,” Mackenzie said.
“So, we do need to follow through on the objectives, but we also need to be very much on guard to make sure that it doesn’t expand beyond what we are able to achieve.”
Others, like Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., were skeptical it would get to that point.
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“I don’t think we’re going to get to that point. This is much different than Iraq or Afghanistan. The capabilities that we’ve developed, the intelligence that we developed, working with the IDF — we had the capabilities now that we did not have,” Alford told Fox News Digital.
“Now, should it come to boots on the ground, which I don’t think it will, that’s an entirely different story. … We’re only five days into this, and I think what you’ve seen so far is having tremendous effect.”
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