Over the past two weeks, Donald Trump has outlined his economic plan and his national security plan, reiterating some of the primary tenets of his campaign: The United States is threatened by a host of actors outside of our country, including China, South Korea, Mexico and the Islamic State group.
In his descriptions, the threats are manifest in various ways — immigration, unfavorable trade agreements, offshoring and outsourcing, and currency manipulation, to name a few. Trump’s positions on trade and national security articulate a muscular U.S. response to these threats, but provide very little detail on the statutory authority to advance his agenda other than a reference to the Patriot Act as a basis for compelling Mexico to construct a border wall. This raises the question: How would he implement his international economic and national security vision under U.S. law?
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