Not yet president, Trump still manages to flex his power on both sides of the border

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Not yet president, Trump still manages to flex his power on both sides of the border
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Mr. Trump is emerging as perhaps the most powerful president-elect since Abraham Lincoln, acting in a way that has little precedent

are both struggling to come to grips with the new American reality: You don’t have to be in power to have power. You don’t even have to be in another country to have power in it.This week, he has disrupted Congress by rejecting the veryit’s attempting to pass, sending lawmakers back to negotiate and the U.S. government hurtling toward a potential shutdown this weekend if a deal can’t be reached in very short order.

, Canada has raced to harden the border with the United States, planned to increase defence spending, and sought to play down the president-elect’s “51st state” rhetoric, in which he has spoken of Mr. Trudeau as a “governor.” The second is the way the American central government is funded in an era of small partisan majorities on Capitol Hill and, often, presidents of a different party. Unable to agree on a budget, Congress in recent years repeatedly has resorted to passing a series of “continuing resolutions” that fund the government and avert a government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, which limits how much Washington can borrow to pay its expenses. It has no impact on future spending.

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