@timsev Well this is what a lot of people have failed to realize over the years: the administration is not the government. It's only one piece of the government.

If you want the US government to be on board with something then you need the branches to agree to it so that it becomes the policy of the entire government.

Anything less is little more than a handshake agreement with the individual currently sitting behind a desk who will be replaced.

So yeah, it is wild, but it is wild because so many don't understand that they aren't making an agreement with the whole government, that they are just tying themselves to one administration that will come and go.