Everything Was for Work

By the time the Department of Defense representatives and the military representatives were waiting for Lin Qi to wake up, Councilor Landon was already in the Capitol Building.

He was waiting for a senator, an important member of the Military Appropriations Committee, a senator of Congress.

Lin Qi's "request" had been stuck here all along. Even though the President had approved a sum of money for Lin Qi using his executive privilege, Congress was still holding it up.

The President's use of executive privilege was the President's prerogative. If the President could use that privilege to make the various congressional committees compromise, then those committees would have had no reason to exist in the first place.

Furthermore, the funds approved through the President's executive privilege would ultimately be reviewed by a separate committee, which would examine their contents.

Only privileged appropriations that passed the review were considered appropriate.

If they deemed them inappropriate, then the scope of the President's fiscal privilege would be reduced the following year.

Many countries found the Federation's system... difficult to describe.

Being President here was often as miserable as eating shit, because even after becoming President, there were still plenty of people and matters capable of restraining him.

Congress was the most typical example. There were also the ruling party's internal committees and party leaders. All of them could influence the President's power, which was why many people felt that being President of the Federation was pointless.

What they did not understand was that the purpose of becoming President in the Federation was sometimes not power, but money.

Just like Councilor Landon at that moment. As a member of the House of Representatives, he was doing something that had little to do with his actual duties.

"...Senator!"

In that short span of time, he spotted