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11. My simple reading of the institute's history says it was Congress which authorized it and AFAIK only Congress can

Mon Mar 17, 2025, 06:42 PM

Mar 2025

remove it. Perhaps this is one more distortion of Presidential authority beyond the bounds of law and reason?

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