GOP senators break with Trump on these 2 points
For more politics coverage and analysis, sign up for Here’s the Deal, our weekly politics newsletter, here. Congress is the first branch listed in the U.S. Constitution. But for years executive power has risen pronouncedly. And that was before the second term of President Donald Trump. In some ways, Trump is a continuation of the trend. But in many cases, he is trying to expand presidential powers in unprecedented ways, including by deploying the National Guard widely across the country, dismantling independent agencies and unilaterally deploying billions of private and public dollars in ways we are still understanding. In the











