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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongress Snuck New Russia Sanctions Into Spending Bill
Who wants to tell him?
Buried in the massive $1.3 trillion spending bill that Congress is considering this week are strict new punishments against Russia, in what lawmakers and aides say is a message to President Donald Trump to reconsider his relaxed posture toward Moscow.
The legislation, which Trump was always expected to sign, includes restrictions that bar many federal agencies from engaging financially or otherwise with the Kremlin and its backers on a number of fronts. Lawmakers from both parties viewed those provisions and others as an opportunity to enshrine new punishments against Vladimir Putins regime at a time when the Trump administration has taken heat for its refusal to immediately and fully implement mandatory sanctions and other punishments.
Those [sanctions] were a good first step. But I do think that these newer sanctions hopefully put a little more bite to it. And frankly I think thats a good thing, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) told The Daily Beast. The Russians are guilty of bad behavior all over the world. And so we shouldnt be doing anything to encourage or condone that.
The new measures come as the White House faces renewed criticism over its handling of Russia. Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that the president, against the advice of his top aides, congratulated Putin on winning re-election to another six-year term. He also did not press Putin on election-meddling or on the nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom.
via The Daily Beast
The legislation, which Trump was always expected to sign, includes restrictions that bar many federal agencies from engaging financially or otherwise with the Kremlin and its backers on a number of fronts. Lawmakers from both parties viewed those provisions and others as an opportunity to enshrine new punishments against Vladimir Putins regime at a time when the Trump administration has taken heat for its refusal to immediately and fully implement mandatory sanctions and other punishments.
Those [sanctions] were a good first step. But I do think that these newer sanctions hopefully put a little more bite to it. And frankly I think thats a good thing, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) told The Daily Beast. The Russians are guilty of bad behavior all over the world. And so we shouldnt be doing anything to encourage or condone that.
The new measures come as the White House faces renewed criticism over its handling of Russia. Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that the president, against the advice of his top aides, congratulated Putin on winning re-election to another six-year term. He also did not press Putin on election-meddling or on the nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom.
via The Daily Beast
According to Rachel, it's still in the bill Trump signed (after saying he wouldn't). Since he hasn't read it, he may not know about it.
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Congress Snuck New Russia Sanctions Into Spending Bill (Original Post)
NastyRiffraff
Mar 2018
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Sneederbunk
(14,286 posts)1. Fooling the fool.
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)2. Rachael covered this and even he sources couldn't
figure out who did it. However, sanctions were passed with an overwhelming majority in the past with the fucking moron refusing to enact them. Let's wait and see what he does with this latest round of sanctions that he has signed (again) and what Congress does if he doesn't enact them as before.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. Headlines for tomorrow
Mama puts the medicine in the candy, and baby doesn't seem to notice.
We have the dumbshittiest of dumbshit leaders to ever exist. I could vote for a half mile stretch of interstate, and it would be a better choice for president.
We have the dumbshittiest of dumbshit leaders to ever exist. I could vote for a half mile stretch of interstate, and it would be a better choice for president.
Hassler
(3,370 posts)4. But he seems so preznitential!
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)5. Rachel did a great job on this issue
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)6. Unfortunately that doesn't mean GODEMPERORKINGTRUMP won't ignore the new law just like the last one.