Donald Trump Asserts Broad Executive Authority to Override Congress
President Donald Trump claims expansive executive powers to ignore court orders, shut down agencies, and deploy the military against drug traffickers.
Donald Trump has asserted broad executive authority, claiming he has the right to do anything he wants as president. His stated objectives include overriding congressional appropriations, ignoring lower court orders, and shutting down agencies funded by Congress.
The president proposed using the military against suspected drug traffickers, imposing tariffs without restriction, and nationalizing state national guards. He also expressed intentions to alter voting rules within individual states.
Republican members of the United States Senate and conservative justices of the Supreme Court of the United States remain the primary entities capable of checking these ambitions. A group of Republican senators may face a critical test later this month concerning government funding language that requires agencies to spend funds as directed by Congress.
