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The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war — that is true — but it also vests the president of the United States with vast authorities as commander in chief.

U.S. military action against Denmark in Greenland would not be appropriate.

We are not at war. We do not have U.S. armed forces in Venezuela, and we are not occupying that country.

I don't think anybody's seriously considering that. And in the Congress, we're certainly not.

There's still some areas that we don't have full agreement upon, and we're going to keep working on those, and we've committed to work on those early in the next year.

This year's National Defense Authorization Act helps advance President Trump and Republicans' Peace Through Strength Agenda by codifying 15 of President Trump's executive orders, ending woke ideology at the Pentagon, securing the border…

Now, we can push for big ideas, grandiose ideas, on the right or the left.

I’m not following all the twists and turns of the Qatar jet. I have certainly heard about it.

I don’t know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, as you know, getting the reconciliation package over the line, so I’m not going to comment on something I haven’t even heard about.

I don’t know anything about that. I didn’t see the interview.

This change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake.

Mr. Johnson has clearly and repeatedly stated he is supportive of access to I.V.F. when sufficient pro-life protections are in place.

I’m not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn’t follow a lot of the news.