Congress passed the War Powers Act to check presidential authority
βAnd so Congress came up, Pat, and said, okay. Stop. Unless you have specific instructions and support and a vote that says, yes, we're declaring war, just like when, the the president went before, congress and said, I want you to declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor. It was a very formal vote, and the congress said, yes. We're declaring war. So it was all aligned. And, you know, Vietnam was not aligned. So all of this madness came together, Pat, in 1973, and they said, that's it. A president can go sixty days if they have to do some sort of emergency act, some bad thing happen. You know, this what goes on Vinny, you know, I mean, the military has to respond and do something about something and you can't, you know, wait for Congress and the naval gazing and you can't put your plans in public. So Congress said, okay, that is it is it is true that the president needs the pen, Pat, to act as a leader and to take steps. But after sixty days, if it's going further, you gotta get our permission, and that's the War Powers Act.β
