Quibble. The Executive does not control the purse strings. The Legislative does.

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I think Weissmann's point was that the right or wrong President has ENORMOUS influence on the country's financial position, through spending priorities, choice of negotiation tactics with Congress and numerous unilateral powers to make HUGE decisions with decades long financial impacts like invading countries, looking the other way as enemies extort allies, etc. Trump can only focus on immediate impacts to HIS personal financial well-being and he frankly sucks at that. He is completely unable to comprehend even immediate impacts of his policies on the COUNTRY'S financial well-being, much less first and second derivative effects that feed upon each other over months / years / decades with exponential impacts.


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