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Stacey Abrams: “We have a complicit Congress that has abdicated its…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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Published | Video Starts at 12:45

And one of the ways they guarantee that is step three, which is that they weaken competing powers. In the case of the United States, the example is that We have a complicit Congress that has abdicated its responsibilities for the power of the purse, for the power of war. almost every power that it has been accorded by the Constitution, it has either abdicated or it has willingly handed over and encouraged and suborned behavior that is antithetical to our Constitution. (12:45–12:52)

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Asserts that Congress has abdicated its constitutional responsibilities regarding financial and military powers.

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