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babylonsister

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Thu Dec 6, 2018, 08:33 AM Dec 2018

Congress Looks to Usurp Trump's Foreign Policy Powers

About damn time.


https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/06/congress-looks-to-usurp-trumps-foreign-policy-powers/

Congress Looks to Usurp Trump’s Foreign Policy Powers
December 6, 2018 at 7:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard


“The Senate is on the verge of an extraordinary rebuke of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, underscoring a bipartisan willingness to encroach on the president’s powers as commander in chief. From forcing Trump to impose sanctions on Russia to raising questions about his nuclear trigger finger, lawmakers are repeatedly asserting themselves in an area long dominated by the executive branch,” Politico reports.

“And now the fury is so great on Capitol Hill over the Saudi murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration’s tepid response — that senators are deliberating over whether to pull U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.”

“That senators have allowed the debate to even reach this stage is itself a reproach to Trump, who has downplayed evidence implicating the powerful Saudi crown prince suspected of masterminding the killing.”
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