• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    The president doesn’t have that power. That power is reserved by congress.

    People really didn’t pay attention to their middle grade civics lessons, did they?

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        6 months ago

        I can’t give you details about how it all works because I’m not an expert. I’m pretty confident the president can’t override funding thar congress has allocated though. There are ways they can spend money, but they can’t get rid of already allocated funding.

        If congress says we’re giving arms to Israel, there’s not much the president can do. They can probably delay it some, depending on how it was written, but it wouldn’t be legal to stop it.

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      6 months ago

      Yes he has. The US is not allowed to send weapons to actors who commit war crimes and hinder US humanitarian efforts. The US is currently breaking that law, because the state department withholds the information that that is in fact what is happening, despite it being obvious. The president absolutely has the power to let the executive uphold the US law instead of breaking it.

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      6 months ago

      the president has massive power and so we need to rally and stop trump

      the president has very little power so you can’t blame biden

      which is it for fucks sake

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        The republican plan is to replace the executive and judicial branch with sycophants. Rules don’t matter if your plan is to make sure rules can’t be enforced. The president doesn’t have the legal power to do it, but that may change with the plans the Republicans have set up.