In 2017, Congress passed the Countering America's Adversaries through Sanctions Act, a law imposing economic sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia. President Trump signed the bill into law, even while calling it seriously flawed and releasing a press statement in which he chided Congress for limiting White House flexibility in foreign policy. As time went on, some senators—mostly Democrats, but also the late Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona--complained to the White House about delays by the State and Treasury departments in enforcing sanctions against Russia. Top Democrats later called for a multi-agency investigation. The senators' actions could have been seen an attempt to limit ___________, a problem typical of principle-agent relationships in governance, in an after-the-fact fashion.
a)
coalitional drift
b)
bureaucratic drift
c)
strictly partisan shenanigans
d)
drifting into sabotage