130 Republicans voted FOR this measure….
Donald Trump lost on this one in the US House…
But Republicans in the Senate refused to go along with the House action allowing the Trump admin to lift the sanctions….And give the Russian President’s friend what he wanted…
n a major rebuke of President Trump, the House overwhelming passed a resolution Thursday formally disapproving of the Trump administration’s rolling back of sanctions on companies owned by Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a 362-53 vote, the House sounded its disapproval of the lifting of sanctions, with 130 Republicans breaking with Trump and backing the Democratic measure.
The vote comes after legislation to prevent the rolling back of sanctions failed Wednesday on a procedural vote in the Senate. Eleven Republicans voted in the Senate to prevent the lifting of sanctions.
The administration had lobbied hard against the effort to stop the lifting of sanctions. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin visited the Senate GOP on Tuesday.
The Senate vote means the administration can go ahead with lifting sanctions on the companies connected to Deripaska…
Update…
“The Trump administration on Sunday lifted sanctions against the business empire of Oleg Deripaska, one of Russia’s most influential oligarchs,” the New York Times reports.
“Congressional Democrats had tried to block the move this month, assailing it as a capitulation to the Kremlin and a key ally of President Vladimir Putin. But they failed to win enough Republican support to enforce the sanctions.”