No constitutional stalemate in a Congress-president tiff

Most observers of the American political scene today would say that the president wants a border wall and the Congress does not.
That, however, is quite inaccurate. “The Congress” is not Speaker Nancy Pelosi, nor any single member of the House or Senate. Constitutionally, the Congress expresses its will only one way: by passing legislation. It has no authority to issue orders having the effect of law, as the president does with executive orders, or the Judicial Branch does by issuing