Corker Asks: How Far Can Trump Go Without Congress?

Posted: October 29th, 2017

By Walter Pincus

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010. He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) asked the right question last week when he said, “In something like North Korea, what is it the president can do without any input from Congress?” during an appearance Thursday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Corker said that question and others will be the focus of a new set of Foreign Relations Committee hearings on “what Congress’ role should actually be…as we move into different countries dealing especially with ISIS?”

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