[jjotto]

The Jerusalem Embassy Act has been US law since 1995. The text allows the president to waive the embassy move.

A few years ago, Congress tried to remove the waiver, but it failed.

Trump would not seem to need further authorization from Congress.

Hard to know what Cruz is proposing without the exact text, but it does look like he’s grandstanding.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for that insight. Some much flows over the transom that it’s hard to remember it all. Now that you mention it, it’s true that the groundwork has already been laid here.

I appreciate you pointing that out (reminding us).

I agree with your observation at the end as well.

[FreeReign]

The Jerusalem Embassy Act has been US law since 1995. The text allows the president to waive the embassy move. A few years ago, Congress tried to remove the waiver, but it failed. Trump would not seem to need further authorization from Congress.

To receive full Congressional funding for the move, I believe the 1995 Act required that the embassy be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.

That deadline of course came and went.

[Yulee]

“The Jerusalem Embassy Act has been US law since 1995. The text allows the president to waive the embassy move.

A few years ago, Congress tried to remove the waiver, but it failed.”

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So, Congress can remove the waiver, give it to President Trump, and then he can make it law without the waiver. If the Dems fight and refuse to remove the waiver, Trump can go ahead and act, and reveal to all that the Dems are duplicitous as ever.