Dem Senators Seek Russia Sanctions After 2020 Election Meddling Reports

Three Democratic senators are asking the Trump Administration to put sanctions on 🇷🇺Russia after reports claim the Kremlin is working to interfere in the 2020 election.

In their letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Bob Menendez (D-NY) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) write, “We urge you to immediately and forcefully impose sanctions on the government of the Russian federation.” They also asked for sanctions on Russian actors and anybody providing financial support to the election meddling efforts.

They added later, “We urge you to immediately draw upon the reported conclusions of the Intelligence Community to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing election interference, including President Putin … Doing anything less would be an abdication of your responsibility to protect and defend the U.S. from this serious threat to our national security and to the integrity of our election process.”

The intelligence community has recently warned Congress that the Russians are interfering in the 2020 election in order to get Trump re-elected. Trump was reportedly upset by the briefing because some of his political foes like Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) were present during the briefing. And he has rejected the notion that the Russians are working to get him re-elected.