There’s just one problem: Transferring billions of taxpayer dollars would require congressional approval. And Trump has not gotten that.
So far, Trump’s foreign policy has been nothing short of an assault on Congress’s power of the purse. The president has unilaterally declared war against foreign drug smugglers, launching a series of deadly extrajudicial strikes on vessels the government claims—but refuses to prove—are carrying drugs. (These strikes are still ongoing: 11 people were killed as recently as Monday.) Not to mention the massive military operation Trump mounted to depose a foreign leader and steal that country’s oil—all without Congress’s ever declaring war.
Now Trump wants to use U.S. money to facilitate Jared Kushner’s master plan for Gaza—just another luxury real estate grift.
There’s just one problem: Transferring billions of taxpayer dollars would require congressional approval. And Trump has not gotten that.
That’s not a problem, though, because Congress is complicit and refuses to act as a check on executive overreach.
because Congress is complicit
Not congress, but Republicans. Democrats have no power in either.
To be honest one of my biggest takeaways from this round of Trump is that the Democrats had this much power the whole time Obama and Biden were in, but elected to just sit around. What was their excuse?
Yes, those fucking democrats followed the law! What were they thinking?
ehh even with democrats around they’d probably be divided and still get nothing done. blaming it on republicans.
