This New York Times headline from the Reagan era says it all:
“Reagan Attacks Congress’s Role On Many Fronts.”
While Reagan fought Congress, conservative think tanks and lawyers were building a long-term strategy to expand presidential power.
During Iran-Contra, Reagan officials secretly funded a war after Congress said no. Today, Congress is debating how to limit a president’s war powers while the war is already underway. The constitutional fight over who controls war never really ended.
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Wild story, but it’s really about a simple question:
Can a president ignore Congress and get away with it?
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U.S. Senate candidate @MalloryMcMorrow is getting clicks promising to ban surveillance pricing in Washington.
She could introduce the surveillance pricing bill already sitting in her own state legislature.
But that would mean doing it, not just talking about doing it.
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Reagan ignored Congress and it led to Iran-Contra.
Bush promised Iraq would be quick and cheap. It only began ending when Congress tied funding to withdrawal.
The lesson: If Congress wants to stop a war, it has to defund it.
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The fight between Congress and the White House didn’t start today.
We trace how decades of strategy reshaped the presidency in Master Plan.
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We trace how decades of planning reshaped the presidency in Master Plan.
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Master Plan, the award-winning investigative podcast series from The Lever, reveals the hidden forces behind today’s biggest problems — and how small groups of powerful people engineered those…
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Wars don’t end when presidents want them to — they end when Congress stops funding them. From the Iran-Contra scandal under Ronald Reagan to the Iraq War under George W. Bush, history shows the power…
