Why Democrats may struggle to rein in Trump's foreign policy

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President Trump's agenda
and his foreign policy agenda have really suffered a significant defeat
overnight across the United States.
Midterms are rarely a referendum on the president's
foreign policy,
but this election was a rare exception where you did have Iran,
the price of fuel, the price of food, the rising house.
price of housing caused by inflation related to this war.
We will expect some constraints on the president's ability
to navigate the international affairs landscape
in these two years to come,
but the president still retains wide latitude
to approach relations with foreign countries unilaterally.
To continue to send U.S. troops where he desires
and to continue to wage wars,
Congress will try to rein him in,
but this power still really lies with the executive
in many ways. There are also factions
on the right that are looking to have a more
A constrained relationship with Israel
and the president himself on the morning of election
day came out and did say that he would
be suspending four billion dollars in assistance
to Israel and in lieu of that beginning
to negotiate a new arrangement with the Israelis.
Look, Israel will remain a close partner of the United States.
This is a longstanding policy.
There are a whole host of shared interests.
