{"id":28387,"date":"2017-02-22T18:55:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28387"},"modified":"2017-02-22T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T02:58:10","slug":"ron-paul-end-unlimited-presidential-war-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/ron-paul-end-unlimited-presidential-war-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: End Unlimited Presidential War Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Interviewed Tuesday by host Kennedy at Fox Business regarding efforts by United States House of Representatives members to limit US wars overseas, former House member Ron Paul (R-TX) agreed with Kennedy&#8217;s assessment that the ability to unilaterally pursue war is &#8220;the most egregious area where there is too much power concentrated in the presidency.&#8221; Paul proceeded to explain that &#8220;it has been that way for a long time,&#8221; pointing to the Korean War and Vietnam War that were fought without the constitutionally required congressional war declarations.<\/p>\n<p>Noting congressional leadership&#8217;s opposition to reining in presidential war powers, Paul advises that House and Senate members can still exercise &#8220;the power of the purse&#8221; to end wars by refusing to approve legislation funding the wars.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Paul&#8217;s complete interview here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_eTpWrR_Lrk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>. Massie is a member of the Ron Paul Institute.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewed Tuesday by host Kennedy at Fox Business regarding efforts by United States House of Representatives members to limit US wars overseas, former House member Ron Paul (R-TX) agreed with Kennedy&#8217;s assessment that the ability to unilaterally pursue war is &#8220;the most egregious area where there is too much power concentrated in the presidency.&#8221; Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28390,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28387\/revisions\/28390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28387"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}