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**TainuibeFaimb** · 04-02-2007, 08:16 PM

No. Congress cannot command the military. Only the President has the authority to actually order troop movements, etc. However, Congress can simply cut funding.

But they cannot insert a clause in a funding that requires the President, to, say, withdraw all troops from Iraq.

04-02-2007, 08:16 PM	#15
TainuibeFaimb Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 486 Senior Member	No. Congress cannot command the military. Only the President has the authority to actually order troop movements, etc. However, Congress can simply cut funding. But they cannot insert a clause in a funding that requires the President, to, say, withdraw all troops from Iraq.
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