Jon Lovett

Yeah.

The president can start a war lawlessly without Congress.

And then Congress feels obligated to fund it on the backend as if it had been approved.

We don't really need a Congress after that.

You could just shut the whole place down.

Also, Coons said that, he said, well, I'm gonna support the troops.

I have questions, but I'm gonna support the troops.

I can't think of like,

It is not supporting the troops to embolden and enable Donald Trump in how he's running this military.

I don't know how anybody who has just watched how Donald Trump just described this military campaign and can think it is supporting our troops to fund it, to provide tacit approval for what he had done as if you had approved it in the first place.

What about the next conflict and the one after that and the one after that?

If we don't have a Congress that's willing to say, or at least on a Democratic side, because we don't know with how, they may need Democratic votes to do this, that says Congress has the authority to declare war, that Congress is going to reassert that prerogative.

If we don't have that, then what about the people killed in the next conflict?

They're already talking about Cuba.

There are other places Donald Trump would like to bomb.

I'm not saying there aren't.

There are trade-offs in any decision.

I can all hear the arguments.

However it began, we have to fund the military.

We have vulnerabilities elsewhere.