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White House Tries to Get G.O.P. to Water Down Russia Sanctions Bill
WASHINGTON
— The White House is quietly lobbying House Republicans to weaken a
bill overwhelmingly passed by the Senate last week that would slap tough
new sanctions on Russia
for its meddling in the 2016 election and allow Congress to block any
future move by President Trump to lift any penalties against Moscow.
The
effort is designed to head off an awkward and politically damaging veto
fight between the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled
Congress on Russia at a time when Mr. Trump is laboring under the shadow
of multiple investigations about his campaign’s potential collusion
with Moscow.
House
Republicans, normally hawkish on Russia, face a choice between
demonstrating a hard line against Moscow in the face of its misconduct
and sparing their own president a potentially embarrassing
confrontation.
On
Tuesday, Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee, lodged a procedural objection that
effectively halted the measure in the House, and could force it to be
redrafted.
But
there is bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for insisting on harsh
sanctions on Russia, whose meddling in the 2016 election has only
reinforced many lawmakers’ disdain for its president, Vladimir V. Putin,
and it is not yet clear whether the White House can muster enough
support in Congress to change the measure. Democrats are intensifying
pressure on House Republicans to quickly clear the bill, part of a
package that was appended to sanctions against Iran, that passed the Senate last week by a vote of 97 to 2.
“I
hope we don’t water them down,” Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
Republican of Florida and the chairwoman emeritus of the Foreign Affairs
Committee, said of the sanctions. “We need to keep them as tough as we
can. I don’t know how successful we’ll be.”
Sean
Spicer, the White House press secretary, said on Tuesday that the
administration was not ready to take an official position on the bill,
including whether the president would veto it if it reached his desk.
But
senior administration officials, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to detail internal discussions, said they had substantial
concerns. They insist that they are not trying to weaken sanctions on
Russia, but rather are concerned that the legislation usurps the
president’s authority to impose such penalties, and could undercut both
the international coalition that supports the existing sanctions and the
administration’s ability to credibly signal to Moscow that it is
willing to ease them in exchange for changes in behavior.
The
officials said the White House wanted lawmakers to eliminate a
congressional review process that would allow the House and the Senate
to block the president from lifting sanctions against Russia, or to add a
waiver that would permit him to circumvent such an action.
Last week, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson warned lawmakers
during an unrelated hearing against imposing new sanctions at all,
arguing that it would undermine the administration’s efforts to forge
new diplomatic channels with Russia.
“The
basic message is, if you’re going to do this, give us the flexibility
to, if we need to, turn up the heat, or if Russia starts to demonstrate
signs that it’s pulling out of Ukraine or fulfilling some of the
requirements of the Minsk agreement around Ukraine, that we have the
ability to dial back,” said R. C. Hammond, an adviser to Mr. Tillerson,
referring to the 2015 cease-fire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
The
Trump administration’s position is not an unusual one. Presidents, who
have authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to
unilaterally impose sanctions in response to national threats, often
bristle against attempts by Congress to review or block such moves.
Congress, which can impose sanctions through legislation, typically
insists on having its own say as a coequal branch of government.
President Barack Obama
had similar disputes with Congress over Russia sanctions. And Mr. Obama
clashed sharply with lawmakers in 2015 over legislation that gave
Congress the power to review the nuclear deal with Iran — which was then
being negotiated — and block a move by the president to lift sanctions
in exchange for Tehran’s compliance.
But
for Mr. Trump, the dispute is complicated by the swirl of inquiries
regarding his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia and his highly
charged response to those investigations, including his firing of James
B. Comey, the F.B.I. director who had been leading one of the inquiries.
“The
Obama administration would take the exact same position that the Trump
administration is taking right now on waivers — any administration would
— but this is as much about politics as about the ever-present tension
between the executive branch and the legislative branch over sanctions,”
said Mark Dubowitz, a sanctions expert who is chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan policy organization, and who supports toughening sanctions on Russia.
The
battle over the sanctions bill is unfolding two weeks before Mr. Trump
and Mr. Putin are expected to meet at the Group of 20 summit meeting in
Hamburg, Germany. On Tuesday, in what many observers interpreted as a
move to demonstrate toughness on Russia to skeptical lawmakers, the Treasury Department added to the existing sanctions,
imposing restrictions on over three dozen individuals and organizations
that have participated in the country’s incursion in Ukraine.
The
move prompted an angry reaction from the Russians, who abruptly
canceled a meeting this week in St. Petersburg between Deputy Foreign
Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Thomas A. Shannon, the under secretary of
state for political affairs.
The
bill would impose new sanctions on Russia and require congressional
review if the president sought to ease those or existing ones,
culminating in a joint resolution to block such action if Congress
disagreed. It would also cement sanctions imposed by Mr. Obama.
Mr.
Brady on Tuesday flagged what is known as a “blue slip” issue with the
legislation, saying it violated a constitutional provision that holds
that only the House can originate bills that raise government revenue.
He said the move was not a “partisan issue,” and House leaders framed it
as a mere procedural hiccup.
The
Senate bill cannot be considered in the House in its current form, said
AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Speaker Paul D. Ryan. “The speaker has
been a strong proponent of sanctions and believes we need to do more to
hold Iran and Russia accountable,” she said. “We will determine the
next course of action after speaking with our Senate colleagues.”
Senator
Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee and chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, said he did not think the House was trying to
stall. “We are all working together to try to resolve that issue,” he
said.
Democrats accused House Republicans of less innocent motivations.
“Make no mistake about it,” said Senator Chuck Schumer
of New York, the Democratic leader. “The ‘blue slip’ threat is nothing
more than a procedural excuse by House Republicans who dredged it up to
cover for a president who has been far too soft on Russia.”
