[Ted Grant]

I don’t think that much specificity is required. I may be wring. Do you have USSC precedent?

[allmendream]

I suppose if Congress said “Hey we authorized funds specifically for the war effort” that might serve as a de fact declaration of war - but it would be a rather indirect way for them to exercise this sole and supreme power for declaring war that the Constitution gives them.

There would be no SCOTUS precedent until some Congress were lilly livered enough to try it and were then challenged on it.

So far they have always seemed to pass a declaration of war/ authorization for the use of force/ or whatnot directly.

Specificity is not there, but it (IMHO) needs to be explicitly stated, not implicit in continued funding.