https://www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-power-equal-1335656?piano_t=1
ouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi while visiting Brussels this week told European leaders that President Donald Trump does not wield all the power in the United States and suggested that she is essentially his equal because of the “power of the purse.”
"We're not a parliamentary government even though we're parliamentarians," Pelosi said at a press conference, according to Politico. "We have Article 1, the legislative branch, the first branch of government, coequal to the other branches and we have asserted ourselves in that way."
Democratic Representative Gerry Connolly, who was part of Pelosi’s delegation during the visit on Monday and Tuesday, elaborated on Pelosi’s remarks on the power of Congress.
“Is this a reassurance tour? I think it's a reminder tour, that the United States government is not just one branch,” Connolly said. “And as the speaker said, Article 1, the first Article in the Constitution of the United States deals with the powers of the legislative branch not the executive branch and those powers include war and peace and even direction of the armed forces."
Pelosi added, "And the power of the purse," referring to the fact that it is up to Congress to authorize budget requests by the president to fund executive agencies.