Senate Minority Leader Chuckie Schumer says he will introduce a bill to reduce Trump’s ability to provide sanction relief to Putin.
And he says he has bipartisan support for the bill:
NEW: @SenSchumer plans to introduce bill "with bipartisan support" requiring congressional approval to reduce sanctions on Russia. #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/8hRl7a6rGm
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 22, 2017
Wow. Trump’s response to this will be really telling. But I don’t think sanctions relief is the entire endgame for Putin – he also wants to bust up NATO, and Trump is all about it. I doubt the Congress will be able to do anything about it if Trump uses the entire power of the executive to do it.
Interesting times.