give a blank check

“Crooked Joe went before the American people and said that if you want to support Israel you have to give a blank check for the proxy war also in Ukraine.”

"We hold freedom of the press dear. It is a cardinal value of democracy, but it is also a freedom which does not give a blank check for disinformation," he said.

Speaking at a news conference in which he conspicuously did not appear alongside Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Macron said he was approaching Lebanon with “the requirements of a friend who rushes to help, when times are hard, but not to give a blank check to systems that no longer have the trust of their people.”

“I’m not going to give a blank check to the criminal element out there so they believe they can go do whatever they want,” Bradshaw said in an interview.

It was Donald Trump’s latest attempt to give a blank check to two US allies leading a disastrous war in Yemen.