Donald Trump’s attack on Iran may set off a showdown over the president’s authority to declare war. The case could end up in court, giving conservative justices a long-awaited chance to end Congress’s ability to limit presidents’ warmaking powers.
Donald Trump’s attack on Iran may set off a showdown over the president’s authority to declare war. The case could end up in court, giving conservative justices a long-awaited chance to end Congress’s ability to limit presidents’ warmaking powers.
He can try to fight a war by himself, then. If congress doesn’t fund the military industrial complex, they’ll go elsewhere. However I have never seen congress going against military funding, for some reason, even though we’ve continually enabled them to do war crimes for pretty much my entire life.
Trump would make US troops fight without pay before he would end Israel’s war.
Executive Branch’s tariff plan gets around the Congressional spending controls. I’m pretty sure those funds from tariffs are income that doesn’t come from taxpayer budgets that Congress controls/approves.
Trying to fund the entire military complex through tariff revenues would mean cutting 3/4ths of military spending, or 5/6th of Trump’s proposed spending.