Biden admin again bypasses Congress to sell military equipment to Israel ( www.cnn.com )

IHeartBadCode , 5 months ago

For anyone curious enough. Power is vested via 22 USC § 2318. Fun fact. Since 1988 this power has been invoked 59 times. 25 of the times have been for the Ukraine-Russia war. And of course twice for Israel just this year alone. For those doing the napkin math here, out of ALL of the times this power has been cited by a President (or related officer), 47% of them have been under Biden. Just FYI.

taiyang , 5 months ago

That is a fun… No, interesting fact. Were the other 53% more evened out? I’m trying to think of where it would have mattered, but I the sense it’s probably most when there’s a hotly divided Congress, which I feel is more recent, like last decade or two.