The US Congress on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to restrain President Donald Trump from any efforts to scale back sanctions against Russia.
The senators voted 97 to 2, which gives them power to strengthen those sanctions against Moscow in retaliation for Kremlin’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and its actions in Syria.
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According to the Washington Post, the two senators who voted against the measure were Republicans Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah).
U.S Intelligence has repeatedly insisted that Russia meddled in the November 8, 2016 Presidential election, which Trump won.
The U.S President has on countless occasions openly doubted the intelligence community’s finding.
While Trump’s administration has not ordered a rollback of any existing sanctions, lawmakers have been concerned about his conciliatory, and at times even forgiving, rhetoric about Russia, as well as recent moves to give Moscow back control over two diplomatic compounds that the Obama administration reclaimed in late December.