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Thu Oct 26, 2017, 05:11 PM Oct 2017

Delays on Russia sanctions

By CONOR FINNEGAN
Oct 26, 2017, 4:47 PM ET

Nearly four weeks after the deadline, the Trump administration still has not implemented the sanctions against Russia that Congress passed with veto-proof majorities in July ...

... the Trump administration was against the bill, especially because it gave Congress additional oversight of what is executive authority. If Trump wanted to make any changes to sanctions against Russia, he needed congressional approval ...

"We have to follow the law, and the president signing into law is something that we certainly will follow," State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert told ABC News on Aug. 3 ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-trumps-delays-russia-sanctions/story?id=50733408

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