The pressure on Trump in the matter of Russia is growing. The Sanctions Package is waiting for “Green Light”
“Many members of the Congress want us to impose sanctions on Russia as strong as possible. And I am a supporter of it,” Johnson said on Monday, but pointing out that he has not talked to President Donald Trump on this subject yet. Johnson is the highest -ranking Republican who was in favor of imposing additional sanctions on Russia. The party leader in the Senate John Thune also declared on Monday that the Senate “is ready to give President Trump all the tools he needs to prompt Russia, that he would finally negotiate in a real way.”
“President Trump devoted a lot of time to actions aimed at ending the bloodshed in Ukraine, but Vladimir Putin seems to be more interested in extending the war than the pursuit of peace,” said Thune. The politician suggested that the draft law on sanctions, reported in April and signed by 82 out of 100 senators, could be considered this week. However, he made it clear that he was still waiting for “green light” from the White House.
Here is the “Bone breaking” package
The bill by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Richard Blimenthal-named by Graham, “breaking the bone” with the package and the sharpest sanctions that were ever seen in Congress-orders administration to impose sanctions on entities from the energy sector and banking sector of Russia, as well as 500 %. duties on your buying oil from it.
The congressmen of both parties in both chambers of the US Congress for a long time are pressing sanctions. On Monday, a new impulse was given by the negotiations of the delegation of Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, where Russia presented Ukraine that is impossible to meet – including Donating territories that Russia does not occupy and limiting the number of the Ukrainian army. Russia once again rejected the proposal to suspend weapons.
Democrats are pressing on the implementation of sanctions
On Monday, they also brought to the Senate of the Senate of the Democrats leader.
“Putin is an obvious villain and a thug. So where is the spine of Donald Trump? Where is the hardness he likes to show?” – said the party leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer. In turn, his deputy Dick Durbin claimed that although the Republicans are ready to introduce new sanctions, they hear instructions from the White House to abstain.
In recent days, Donald Trump has strongly criticized Putin and threatened to impose sanctions, but until now he refused to explicitly declare that he would do it, claiming that he did not want to do it as long as he thinks that there is a chance to reach an agreement. On Friday, he stated that the decision regarding the sanctions would be made for the next week or two.
As the diplomat of one of NATO countries told PAP – whom Graham informs about the progress of the project on an ongoing basis – although President Trump probably does not want to antagonize relations with Putin, he may soon be forced to do so by circumstances and political pressure. ” Anyway, he only loses politically, “said the interlocutor.
