WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pressed President Trump to lastly get robust with Vladimir Putin as he continues to let the Kremlin cross one deadline after one other – together with one right this moment – with no penalties.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats launched a video compilation of President Trump’s a number of deadlines for Russia to finish their unprovoked struggle in opposition to Ukraine. Ranking Member Shaheen additionally carried out interviews with BBC World News America and NCS the place she emphasised the necessity for Congress to step in and drive Putin to the negotiating desk.
Watch the video on President Trump’s faux deadlines for Russia:
Watch Ranking Member Shaheen’s full interviews with BBC and NCS right here.
Key quotes from Ranking Member Shaheen:
- BBC: “And the president has, on no less than six events, given deadlines to Vladimir Putin for actions to finish the struggle in Ukraine and Putin has crossed these and nothing has occurred. The president must take motion. He must assist the Blumenthal-Graham sanctions invoice within the Senate. We must get that handed. And he wants to supply the gear and assist that Ukraine must conduct this struggle. And on that, Graham-Blumenthal invoice, that sanctions invoice, there’s been broad bipartisan assist for that for months now.”
- BBC: “I would think that this would give an additional tool for the president to use with Vladimir Putin. Why he’s been reluctant to endorse a bill that has over 80 bipartisan co-sponsors is beyond me.”
- NCS: “President Trump has now allowed Vladimir Putin to blow through seven deadlines that he has set since he came into office. And he’s continuing to allow Vladimir Putin to play him. The most obvious example was at the summit in Alaska, where he got virtually nothing from Vladimir Putin. And what we’ve seen is more people killed in Ukraine because of President Trump’s failure to act on something that he said he was going to be focused on.”
- NCS: “The only thing that Vladimir Putin understands is strength and pressure. We need to fund the Ukrainians in terms of the military hardware they need. We need to provide the support to help them keep going in this fight. We need to pass the Graham-Blumenthal sanctions bill that has over 80 sponsors in the Senate to really put pressure on Russia to come to the table to negotiate a peace deal.”
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