President Donald Trump has tried to unravel restrictions on presidents that Congress added in the wake of the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal, a push that experts say comes at a time when growing partisanship has left Congress ill-equipped to respond.
The Trump administration has withheld congressionally mandated funding, fired more than a dozen inspectors general meant to watchdog the executive branch and fired without cause an ombudsman for federal workers, and more.
So far, opposition from the Trump administration moves has come from court challenges and not from Republicans who control both chambers of Congress, who have largely kept quiet any misgivings about Trump testing the bounds of executive power.
