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The Trump administration's proposed $1.45 trillion defense budget for fiscal 2027 comes up short in three key ways for U.S. security in the Indo-Pacific.

Most constitutional experts have never given the Two-Year Clause a second thought. The circumstances that made that neglect tolerable are in the process of dissolving.

With America’s war in Iran costing around $2 billion per day, Congress will soon face a choice: use its leverage to force an exit, or continue to fund it.

Why the One Big Beautiful Bill violates a forgotten constitutional check on funding standing armies and how Congress can enforce it now.

Congress has little authority to rewrite local limits on cooperation with federal immigration enforcement -- and shouldn’t try to do so.

Experts detail targeted reforms and legislative pathways Congress could enact to improve ICE and CBP accountability.

Can the United States join the Board of Peace without action by Congress? Can it provide funds or carry out its operations without congressional approval?

The deal circumvents the Appropriations Clause and congressional safeguards designed to enforce it, creating a system answerable only to the White House.

The Trump administration has operated outside the appropriations process and congressional oversight through its law firm settlements.

The Impoundment Control Act makes clear that the president does not have the authority to unilaterally impound billions in federal funds.

Reviews of programs in new administrations don't require such damaging, destructive, and likely unconstitutional freezes.

It is easy, especially for litigation-minded lawyers, to focus the most attention on investigation enforcement mechanisms like contempt, but in Congress the vast majority of enforcement…