With the legislature, the president is essentially ruling by executive order as opposed to legislation. So it's a real abdication. And by the way, in the case of tariffs as well, where I believe that Congress, because of the Constitution, has tariff authority. and decades ago, there was a delegation of emergency, national emergency, national security, security, emergency authority to a president that this has been an overreach on the part of President Trump to use tariffs for his own negotiating tools, for his own reasons. (01:08–01:13)
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