Schumer Calling for Vote to Keep Sanctions on Rusal
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he will force a vote before Jan. 17 on a resolution that would stop the Treasury Department from lifting sanctions on Russian aluminum producer Rusal and related Russian companies. In order to stop the administration, both the House and Senate would have to vote for the joint resolution. In his press release announcing the intention, he said he "has concluded that the Treasury Department’s decision to lift sanctions on these three Russian companies was misguided and believes that the Senate must act to right the Trump Administration’s wrong, especially given the fact that the Special Counsel’s Russia investigation has not yet completed its work."
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Rusal and the other companies were sanctioned because of their ownership by oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who Schumer said is purported to have deep ties to former Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Although the sanctions have been in place since April, Rusal received a series of stays of execution over the months as the government negotiated on how the company could avoid being put out of business as a result of the sanctions.