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Presidential Power: America’s Limits and What’s at Stake

Trump wasn’t the first president to test the limits of the office. On today’s Big Take DC podcast: how presidential power has evolved since the country’s founding.

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The US government was built on a system of checks and balances. But there’s always been a tug of war over just how much power the president has — on paper and in practice.