Cenk Uygur
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Trump PISSED Congress Won't Let Him Lift Russia Sanctions
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July 29, 2017
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9:37Now PlayingCongress doesn’t trust Trump on Russia. Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, and Francesca Fiorentini, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Like the shirt Cenk’s wearing? Get one at shoptyt.com
"Congress has handcuffed Donald Trump on Russia.
On Thursday night, sanctions legislation targeting Russia soared through the Senate by a margin of 98-2 just days after it coasted through the House of Representatives 419-3.
So it’s official: One of the first major pieces of bipartisan legislation to pass Congress during Trump’s presidency has been explicitly designed to sharply limit his powers.
The bill takes Obama-era sanctions against Russia that are in place under executive orders — that is, directives that only the president has authority to enact and rescind — and officially enshrines them in the law. It also establishes a new congressional review process that would allow Congress to block the White House from taking steps to ease sanctions if it wanted to. And it imposes a fresh batch of sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Trump now faces an awkward dilemma: veto the legislation and endure the humiliation of seeing Congress — controlled by his own party — override him with ease, as lawmakers in both parties have pledged to do. Or sign the legislation and endure the humiliation of agreeing to a bill that his administration lobbied against in its bid to cling to a key bargaining chip in negotiations with Russia.”*
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