{"id":37175,"date":"2019-05-26T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T17:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37175"},"modified":"2019-05-26T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T17:56:24","slug":"trump-overreach-keeps-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37175","title":{"rendered":"Trump overreach keeps growing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MBS%20%23Saudiarmssale%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37176\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/untitled-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/untitled-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/untitled-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/untitled.png 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts at usurping congressional authority and legislative power are growing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-admin-bypassing-congress-billion-arms-sale-saudi\/story?id=63254837\">The House and the Senate both have voted against<\/a> an appropriation to provide arms to Saudi Arabia, citing that government&#8217;s ruthlessness in his role in the Yemen civil war as well as the murder of a U.S. journalist at the hands of Saudi assassins.<\/p>\n<p>What does the president do? He decides to invoke an executive action that circumvents Congress, thus consummating an $8 billion arms deal with the Saudis.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the threat posed by Iran is the reason he outflanked Congress. The Iranians and the Saudis hate each other. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s leadership is friendly to Trump, even though its crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, has been implicated in the murder of Saudi-born U.S. journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered while being held captive by Saudi goons.<\/p>\n<p>Do you get the picture? Trump&#8217;s friendship with the guy they call MBS supersedes congressional authority. Therefore, Trump will ignore congressional insistence that we no longer support the Saudi involvement in the ongoing bloodshed in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this might energize congressional Republicans to join their Democratic colleagues in their outrage over the president&#8217;s overreach into congressional authority?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think so, either.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MBS%20%23Saudiarmssale%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts at usurping congressional authority and legislative power are growing. The House and the Senate both have voted against an appropriation to provide arms to Saudi Arabia, citing that government&#8217;s ruthlessness in his role in the Yemen civil war as well as the murder of a U.S. journalist at the hands of Saudi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump overreach keeps growing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1112,1424,1941,8188,4128,8646],"class_list":["post-37175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-mbs","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37177,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37175\/revisions\/37177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}