“Our government is set up for the President to answer to Congress, not vice versa.”
Would you mind citing some authority for that assertion, that the presidency is subservient to the congress?
And how does that jive with three `coequal branches of government & `checks and balances’ and so forth.
(No `weaseling’ e.g. the `SOTU’: the president, one man, can veto the action of both houses with just his signature.)
The president can’t spend one penny of Federal money without Congressional authorization.
Good answer. Thanks.
The president can’t pass a bill, but Congress can override a veto.
Personally, I think it was addressed in the Federalist papers.
In #69 Hamilton argued that the president’s authority would be “nominally the same with that of the King of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces as first general and admiral of the confederacy” to quote one analyst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._69#cite_note-2
Federalist 76 makes some interesting observations on the balance between congress and the President.
#49 emphasizes that the power to impeach is a check against an imperial presidency.