The compromise version of the US military spending bill includes a clause that would require President Trump to submit the details of his North Korea strategy to Congress, and provide annual updates to that strategy.
This would be a substantial change, President Trump has repeatedly threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, but other officials have suggested a broad set of diplomatic efforts are also being tried.
So far, Trump’s official stance on what his plans are is “we’ll see,” and his long-standing preference to not make public his military policy suggests he won’t be too happy with having to offer Congress an accounting of where the US stands.
With many in Congress interested in advancing bills that would make it clear Congress has never authorized an attack on North Korea, they are likely very interested in seeing how serious the possibility is that Trump is going to order such an attack.
All Congress is doing is trying to stick their noses in, as some diplomacy is going on, and aparently, they do not have neocon eyes inside the process. Tillerson is not yet under full neocon control — and while his pronouncements are always obedient to their wishes, he has things going on that are outside eyes and ears of the everpresent. So, brave Congress that never wanted to stop any wars, is now concerned all of a sudden? I would say they are interested in insuring crisis is kept up, and war path paved. It is too quiet for their taste.