US Congress

America is heading for two years of constitutional brinkmanship

This Al Jazeera English opinion piece argues that the coming two years of a Trump presidency facing a Democratic-controlled Congress will not produce simple gridlock, but a volatile mix of transactional bipartisanship and aggressive executive unilateralism. Adolfo Franco predicts clashes over domestic spending and trade, a constitutional showdown over war powers and Iran, and routine impeachment threats, with governance happening in the intervals between crises.