He infuriated Capitol Hill by moving forward with controversial weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without congressional permission. By law, the president is required to provide Congress a thirty-day heads-up before weapons sales can move forward, allowing them an opportunity to block the transactions. Trump knew there was bipartisan opposition, so he invoked an “emergency” provision in the law, sent it to Congress at the last minute, and went forward with the sales anyway. To be clear, there was no “emergency,” and Trump set another bad precedent for future chief
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