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Congress doesn’t get a veto over Trump’s nuclear trigger but …

By Tom Rogan
Published October 27, 2017 2:58pm ET
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Congress doesn’t get a veto over Trump’s nuclear trigger but …
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment explains that the president can be suspended from office "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit [to congressional leaders that the president is incapable of carrying out his duties]." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner) | Graeme Jennings

President Trump has the unilateral authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.

But warning that a “mistake by Trump could kill hundreds of thousands on the Korean peninsula,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is introducing legislation to restrict Trump’s ability to launch a nuclear first strike.

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