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↵↵The proclamation issued Tuesday added five countries and the Palestinian authority to the original 12 countries with full restrictions and entry limitations Trump put in place in June.
↵↵The transactional Trump has seemed mostly interested in trying to untether Venezuela from American foes such as China, Iran and Russia.
↵↵A DHS spokesperson confirmed on Monday that those countries are Afghanistan, Burma, Burundi, Chad, Republic of Congo, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Sierra Leone, Somalia
The first, adopted by a vote of 419-13, would prohibit sales from the SPR to entities owned or controlled by China, North Korea, Russia, Iran or any other nation under U.S. sanctions.
In 2020, he sponsored a binding resolution that would have required then-President Donald Trump to immediately cease any hostilities against Iran and Iranian government officials in the wake of an
President Donald Trump and other administrations have also sold crude oil from the SPR to Chinese firms.
Liz Cheney, another Armed Services woman who has become a pariah in her party for serving on the Jan. 6 committee and defying former President Donald Trump, endorsed both Slotkin and Spanberger this fall
Iran could quickly become one. And then there is the prospect of terrorists fashioning a nuclear or radiological weapon.
It says a withdrawal was not the only option on the table for the Biden administration despite the 2020 Doha agreement brokered by former President Donald Trump, in which the U.S. agreed to exit Afghanistan
For one thing, many in the caucus believe the Biden administration should designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism — a status the Kremlin would then share with Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria
“I said that’s exactly what it means,” Trump said, justifying his threat as a negotiating tactic to convince allies to spend more on their militaries.
“There simply is no good alternative to reentering the Iran nuclear deal. Trump tried it,” Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., said in a Senate floor speech last week.
areas to criticize the president on foreign policy, such as last year’s U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, countering China, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and attempts to reenter a nuclear deal with Iran
In June 2020, as the pandemic raged, CQ Roll Call disclosed that the Trump administration wanted to cut spending on the biological program and reported in 2021 that the Biden administration was following
Devin Nunes‘ resignation to become CEO of Trump Media, the former president’s new business undertaking, has prompted a shake-up in Republican leadership on the House Armed Services Committee.
“I stand with our partners especially when they face threats from Iran and Iran-backed groups,” said Sen. James M.
Speaking against the resolution was Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, who was a prominent opponent during the Trump years of efforts to sell much larger “offensive” weapons packages
Continuing to have the military authorization on the books leaves it vulnerable to abuse, as many Democrats argue President Donald Trump did in January 2020 when he used it as a partial basis for legal
Even now, Netanyahu, who overtly aligned himself with the Republican Party and former President Donald Trump, is working to sink the new government in the remaining week before it is to be formalized.
In 1994, he opposed the Senate candidacy of Virginia Republican Oliver North, an ultraconservative activist who had been an architect of Ronald Reagan’s infamous arms-for-hostages deal with Iran