Foreign Policy and Limitations of Presidential Power

The President and Foreign Policy 

• Congress has some control over foreign policy, reducing the budget for Iraq late in Bush's second term 
• However ultimately it is the presidents decision, Bush invading Iraq without congressional approval in 2003 and Obama air strikes on Lybia 
• The Supreme court can rule some foreign policy decisions unconstitutional, Trump travel ban in 2016
• However usually its up to the president, Obama opting into the Paris climate change agreement 
• The war powers act of 1970 gives congress some oversight on how presidents run wars 
• However historically this hasnt really worked, military involvement in Lybia and Syria not approved by congress 
• Congress…