Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) scheduled a vote for Thursday afternoon on a Democratic resolution warning Trump against handing over former diplomats.
The Senate will vote on the resolution around 1:45 p.m. on Thursday.
Democratic Sens. Robert Menendez (N.J.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), as well as Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), introduced the resolution warning the administration against agreeing to let the Russian government question former officials.
“One of the most stunning things about the summit was the president’s openness to a request by President Putin to question former United States ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul and other Americans,” Schumer said earlier Thursday.
“Certainly if the president agreed to such a request, Congress must do everything in its power to block it. There can be no room for debate, no room for discussion. We must be clear and clear quickly,” Schumer continued.
The resolution, according to Schumer, would make it “the sense of Congress that the United States should refuse to make available any current or former diplomat, civil servant, political appointee, law enforcement official or member of the Armed Forces of the United States for questioning by the government or Vladimir Putin.”
Democrats and some Republicans have blasted the White House for even considering the offer from Putin.
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JUST IN: McConnell schedules vote on Schumer resolution telling Trump not to hand former diplomats over to Putin https://t.co/1A6BiHWEAL pic.twitter.com/j8cJXIjEjK
— The Hill (@thehill) July 19, 2018
Mitch McConnell just set up a vote today on this @SenSchumer resolution calling for refusing to hand over U.S. diplomats or officers to Vladimir Putin.
(The White House wouldn't rule out doing so yesterday.) pic.twitter.com/Rho9WloA4U
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 19, 2018
98-0. Bipartisanship is not dead yet in the US Senate. Thank you all for your support.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 19, 2018
Does Congress not realize that there is something wrong when you have to consistently pass resolutions and take votes to prevent the POTUS from traitorous behavior? Just impeach him and be done with all of the misery.
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