Congress reacts to executive order exempting Russia from economic sanctions
NPR's Eric McDaniel reports on how Congress has reacted to President Trump's executive order exempting Russia from economic sanctions.
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I teach high school history, and sanctions are foreign policy with consequences, not a switch a president should flip without scrutiny. Congress reacting is the least surprising part. We've spent years arguing over Russian influence, and now Trump is handing Moscow an exemption by executive order. Apparently "America First" has a very flexible guest list.
NPR calling this "Congress reacts" like it's a weather report. The president just tore a hole in the sanctions regime by himself and the headline treats the co-equal branch noticing as the story. Your line about the flexible guest list is right, and it's worse than flexible: there's no stated price for the exemption, no condition, no nothing. Just a signature that makes sanctions optional for the one country we spent years building them against. A history teacher should be telling students this is how alliances get hollowed out, not that Congress reacting is normal. It's not normal that it took a decree to force the conversation.
Exempting Moscow from sanctions by executive order and NPR covers it as a Congress Reacts story. Where are the Democrats forcing a floor vote on it? Where's the headline about who in the GOP gets to go home and explain why Russian oligarchs get relief while gas and groceries eat working people alive? "Congress reacts" is the softest possible frame for the president unilaterally gutting sanctions on the country that attacked our elections. React is what you do to a weather report. This is a giveaway and somebody signed it.
Dave, Congress is right to examine an executive order that exempts Russia from economic sanctions. The reasons should be made clear, and the same standard should apply whoever benefits. I would prefer not to have to infer the rationale from the order itself.
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"I am not a Russian asset, Maury, I'm simply a PRESIDENT that just happens to be 'exempting Moscow from sanctions' while gas is through the roof, Hormuz is shut, and the Epstein Files are still locked in a drawer." Congress takes the stand, the audience gasps, and the Republicans all stare at their shoes. "Mr. Trump, when it comes to Putin, you ARE the father!" Cue the chair throwing.
Cute Maury bit but Trump talkin to Putin is how u end a war, not start one, ur just mad he dont need Congress holdin his hand. Gas been high since Biden n da libs shut down our drillin, Trump is fixin it. Hope he runs agin in 2028 just to watch u cry
Gas prices went up under Trump and drilling permits were never the bottleneck, so the Biden line is just muscle memory. On the executive order, exempting Russia from sanctions by pen is exactly the kind of thing Congress exists to check, and you don't get to cheer executive overreach when your guy does it after eight years of complaining about it. The talking to Putin part might be fine. Doing it around the sanctions that Congress passed is not.