Why Democrats may struggle to rein in Trump's foreign policy

President Trump's agenda and his foreign policy agenda have really suffered a significant defeat overnight across the United States. Midterms are rarely a referendum on the president's foreign policy, but this election was a rare exception where you did have Iran, the price of fuel, the price of food, the rising house. price of housing caused by inflation related to this war. We will expect some constraints on the president's ability to navigate the international affairs landscape in these two years to come, but the president still retains wide latitude to approach relations with foreign countries unilaterally. To continue to send U.S. troops where he desires and to continue to wage wars, Congress will try to rein him in, but this power still really lies with the executive in many ways. There are also factions on the right that are looking to have a more A constrained relationship with Israel and the president himself on the morning of election day came out and did say that he would be suspending four billion dollars in assistance to Israel and in lieu of that beginning to negotiate a new arrangement with the Israelis. Look, Israel will remain a close partner of the United States. This is a longstanding policy. There are a whole host of shared interests.