Interesting, thanks.
It might be a fable but reportedly Roosevelt met with the congressional leaders to tell them of the possibilities of research on the atom bomb to end WW2.
The response was from the Senate Leader from Tennessee: “Wonderful news Mr President! Where in Tennessee would you want to build this research facility?”
A more recent example of congress’s power over foreign affairs is the huge, wasteful, partisan spending Pelosi and Reid demanded of Bush for their approval of funding the Iraq “surge”.
We’ve been bankrupt ever since.