Since taking office last January, Trump has sought to use his executive powers beyond just using military power abroad, including imposing broad tariffs on foreign goods, seeking to neutralize state-level regulations on artificial intelligence and trying to end the constitutional protection for birthright citizenship. Sen John Curtis said, “I would be fooling myself” to say Congress hasn’t ceded some legislative power to the president, particularly on tariffs, and he said it frustrates him. But he added that many subtler checks on presidential authority often go unnoticed. “Most of the pushback that we give the executive branch, you’re not going to read about in the papers,” he said. “If you think about the best way for me to push back, it’s not necessarily on social media, but in those one-on-one conversations.”