The bottom line is the president doesn't have this power. He can't decide to hold aid or put conditions on aid that Congress didn't.
Chris Murphy: “The bottom line is the president doesn't have this power. He can't decide to hold aid or put conditions on aid that…”
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Murphy asserts that the president's actions regarding aid to Lebanon were unconstitutional.
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