Congress, Constitution's Primary Branch, Has Lost Its Way

The Constitution is very clear: Congress - and only Congress - has the power to declare war.

The president basically has carte blanche to wage war - and retreat from it - without any real congressional sanction.

President Trump ramped up that war without congressional authorization.

Congress gave the president almost unilateral authority over trade decades ago, even though the commerce clause gives Congress total authority over trade, both foreign and domestic.

I understand why many support the president's trade policies toward China, but why Congress yawned as the president invoked national-security threats to wage trade wars with Canada or the EU is a different matter.

Congress has been surrendering vast swathes of its constitutional authority to the president, to the courts, and to a permanent bureaucracy for a century.

Congress is the first and supreme branch of government, with the power to declare war, write laws, create all of the courts save the Supreme Court, and raise taxes.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/congress-ceded-authority-to-executive-branch-courts-bureaucracy/