Both, because the president doesn’t have unilateral power in keeping treaties. Treaties are ratified by Congress and are considered legally binding.
Could Biden do more? Absolutely. But he alone doesn’t have the power to provide aid that was already loaded.
Right on the nail. People always act like the president has dictatorial powers to do anything they want. There are too many idiots on social media who smugly reply to his (or other world leaders’) posts when he says something like “we should do more to protect the environment” and they reply “wElL aReNt You ThE GuY iN chArge??”
Yes… but he’s Joe Biden, not Julius Caesar.
I think that’s the appeal of Trump. He’s gonna be dictator for a day. That sounds like code for “I’m gonna rewrite the Constitution to make everything I do legal and be president forever.”
The irony being, at least, in the US, is that Trump did halt something similar - Aid to Ukraine. (which is partly why they’re in this mess. and partly why Putin invaded when Trump lost re-election basically immediately.)
Am American, this is an American-Israeli genocide as far as I’m concerned.
The last flimsy veneer of deniability died when we legislated to send them more weapons and funding after the genocide had begun.
Not that we weren’t already complicit. (this graph was right after the Oct 7th fatalities, but before Israel began their scorched Earth campaign, so 2023 ended very differently.)
