OFAC expanded the authorization for grants, scholarships, and awards to Cuba or Cuban nationals.
In response to that, the only real movement in Congress is to think about how to enact a new law to expand the authorization even further.
And, on September 20, 2017, President Trump signed into law E.O. 13810, which broadly expanded the authorization of secondary sanctions first enacted in CAATSA.
Nothing in this section is intended to limit or expand the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force.
For example, the administration has unilaterally delayed the imposition of the law's employer and individual mandates, and expanded the authority of federally-run insurance exchanges, without congressional authorization.
One of the most undercovered aspects of Obama's legacy has been how he has waged war, unilaterally expanding the original 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks almost beyond recognition.
The plan would expand the December 1998 authorization to acquire as many as 20 million DuPont shares.
Yet Graham is more than happy to indulge his own hysterical blindness by escalating the war on terrorism to include American citizens on American soil and all non-Al Qaeda terrorists, thus expanding the mandates of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force and further enabling an endless war with accompanying endless war powers.
Mr. Obama, he added, has talked of expanding the war in Afghanistan without renewed congressional authorization for a battle launched eight years ago (although it now seems Washington may hesitate to send many or any more troops).
Trump proposes reducing "wasteful" Medicare spending by expanding the list of treatments that require prior authorization before the procedure can be done and putting on notice medical providers who charge significantly more than others.
