“The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, stated that Congress would not admit new sanctions against Russia without agreeing with President Donald Trump. At the same time, he acknowledged that the need for sanctions has long been ripe.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Johnson in an interview for CBS News
Details: According to Johnson, Congress has a “great interest” in the introduction of new restrictive measures against Russia. The speaker stressed that he was ready to cooperate with the White House and the Senate to make the sanctions adopted.
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Direct Language: “I really believe that desperate times require desperate measures. I think that sanctions against Russia have long been ripe, Congress has great interest in this. Therefore, we are ready to work with the White House and our Senate colleagues in the House of Representatives to do so. I personally want to do it.”
Details: At the same time, he stressed that Congress could not make such decisions on its own, since the final word belongs to the President.
“The president will have to sign everything we do and approve it as a law. It should be a partnership, but we obey the commander -in -chief,” he said.
Prehistory:
- On September 10, the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that the US Congress was ready to pass the law if Donald Trump would impose additional sanctions in connection with Russian aggression against Ukraine.
- On September 12, a two-party group of US senators presented a project of a law that provides for the recognition of Russia and Belarus with terrorism sponsors if they do not return more than 19,000 stolen Ukrainian children.
- On September 13, Trump wrote on his social network Truth Socal that he is ready to impose serious sanctions against Russia if all NATO countries do and if they stop buying Russian oil.
- Before that, he once again stated that his patience about the head of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin was “exhausted”.