President Trump and U.S. lawmakers should consider revising sanctions targeting Russia so they focus more on Russian oligarchs, a senior Republican lawmaker suggested after participating in a congressional delegation visit to Moscow.
“You do something and nobody ever sits back and analyzes, ‘Well, is it working?’” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told the Washington Examiner. “And I think you’d be hard-pressed to say that sanctions against Russia are really working all that well.”
Johnson was a member of a congressional delegation that met last week with Russian diplomats and lawmakers, although the Russian government initially resisted allowing him to enter the country. He returned to the U.S. skeptical of the efficacy of the sanctions, which were designed to punish Russian interference in the 2016 elections and other aggressive foreign policy moves.
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GOP senator open to revising Russia sanctions after Moscow trip https://t.co/T1Uav2iyRY
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) July 7, 2018
So, basically, GOP senators went to Moscow on the Fourth of July to see if US companies could make a few bucks off of the president’s coming capitulation to Putin. The Republican Party has now completed the trashing of America’s bipartisan victory in the Cold War. https://t.co/ehbcmW1dNw
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 6, 2018
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