Mnuchin to brief lawmakers on easing sanctions against Putin ally
Source: Politico
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday will provide House lawmakers with a classified briefing on the Trump administration's plan to ease sanctions against three companies controlled by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who has close ties to President Vladimir Putin.
The closed-door session will take place at 4 p.m. and could include other administration officials, according to a notice of the meeting obtained by POLITICO. The all-member briefing is one of the earliest tangible oversight acts by House Democrats since the new majority was sworn in last week.
The notice comes the day after seven Democratic House chairmen sent Mnuchin a letter asking him "to explain the easing of sanctions on businesses tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska."
As the chairs of committees with oversight jurisdiction over the U.S. response to Russias attempts to interfere in our elections and other hostile actions, we have a number of concerns about the agreement that the U.S. has reached, the Democrats wrote in the missive and requested a detailed response by Friday.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/mnuchin-briefing-russian-sanctions-1070287
How about "No". Does "No" work for you?
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Not that I haven't had one everyday since November 2016, but I will have some type of fit.
stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Say that 3 times fast.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)Has any other president committed treason so openly?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)that manafort owed $10 million. The only reason manafort hasn't rolled on donnie is he's still hoping (and this article shows he has reason to hope) to get the sanctions on his banker lifted and for donnie to pardon him (manafort).
watoos
(7,142 posts)in2herbs
(2,947 posts)wanting to lift sanctions against Russia and the wall issue just being a deflection for this.
BigmanPigman
(51,658 posts)Same old, same old.
Grasswire2
(13,575 posts)can't trust him to tell the truth
Takket
(21,703 posts)pretty telling that with the market swinging up and down, the government shut down, a so called "crisis" on the border.... that there is still time to deal with sanction lifting on russians. We all know how that got to the top of the priority list.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)check before it all falls down
He can share a cell with his Russian friend.
ScratchCat
(2,020 posts)that he has no idea what on earth they could be providing that is "classified" that would change his mind that this move to ease sanctions is anything other than the result of an illegal quid pro quo with the Russian government as repayment for the hacking. He outright stated that on Ari's show.