Democrat says Congress \u2018doing nothing\u2019 may embolden president to attack countries such as Cuba and North Korea<\/p>\n
Democratic US senator Cory Booker<\/a> has criticized both his own political party as well as its Republican counterpart for being \u201cfeckless\u201d in ceding congressional war powers to Donald Trump<\/a>, saying that their decision could embolden the president to unilaterally attack Cuba, North Korea and other countries.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to be one of those Democrats [who] say I think both parties have been feckless in allowing the growth of the power of the presidency,\u201d Booker said on Sunday on CNN\u2019s State of the Union.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Democrat says Congress \u2018doing nothing\u2019 may embolden president to attack countries such as Cuba and North Korea Democratic US senator Cory Booker has criticized both his own political party as well as its Republican counterpart for being \u201cfeckless\u201d in ceding congressional war powers to Donald Trump, saying that their decision could embolden the president to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}