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New York Times | Debate over presidential war powers sets up test for a divided G.O.P.
The issue of presidential war powers has long divided both parties, stoking a mostly theoretical debate. But the dilemma this year is particularly acute for Republicans, for whom it has become the latest in a series of proxy battles over Mr. Trump's hold on the party, pitting those who want to follow the former president’s lead in extricating the United States from conflicts in the Middle East against those who hew to longstanding party orthodoxy in favor of a muscular military posture.
"If they lean hard against" policies of restraint, "then they’re running into the teeth" of Mr. Trump's language "that helped educate the Republican base for four years about ending endless war," said William P. Ruger, who was Mr. Trump's nominee for ambassador to Afghanistan and is the vice president for foreign policy at Stand Together, backed by the libertarian-leaning billionaire Charles Koch. "The politics have shifted on this." |
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