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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Schladow is wrong about the constitutional language, but she’s right about how this works today in practical terms.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Behold the intellectual might of the conservative legal movement

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I wrote about this last week. Congress’s power of the purse is the ultimate check on executive war powers, and Congress has chosen to fund a massive standing military force that can topple countries in a matter of days.

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How Congress Set the Stage for Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

Generations of lawmakers, straying from the Founders’ ideals—and fears—led inevitably to this era of unaccountable warmongering.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In the 18th and 19th centuries, with no real U.S. standing army, asking Congress to approve a war also meant asking it to fund one. Now that presidents get the funding anyway, and there are no real consequences for not getting approval, it’s not surprising that Trump doesn’t care.

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