{"id":318620,"date":"2017-07-23T19:24:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T18:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-administration-happy-with-new-russia-sanctions-bill-white-house\/"},"modified":"2017-07-23T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T18:24:49","slug":"trump-administration-happy-with-new-russia-sanctions-bill-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-administration-happy-with-new-russia-sanctions-bill-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration \u2018happy\u2019 with new Russia sanctions bill: White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The administration of US president Donald Trump is \u201chappy\u201d with the latest congressional push for more sanctions against Russia, says the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration is supportive of being tough on Russia, particularly in putting the sanctions in place,\u201d Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told ABC News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came two days ahead of a vital vote by the House of Representatives on a new Russian sanctions bill that was passed by the Senate last month.<\/p>\n<p>While introducing a host of new sanctions against Moscow, the legislation would also make it much harder for Trump to lift the sanctions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170723\/f77e2ad7-b8c2-43e5-8c09-038248c3f1de.jpg\"\/><figcaption>White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC,\u00a0 July 11, 2017. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Trump administration had worked hard to ease the penalties. While reports stated that the measure was likely to reach the president\u2019s desk without the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/23\/529454\/US-Trump-Russia-Sanctions-Congress-Cardin-Thune\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of US president Donald Trump is \u201chappy\u201d with the latest congressional push for more sanctions against Russia, says the White House. \u201cThe administration is supportive of being tough on Russia, particularly in putting the sanctions in place,\u201d Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told ABC News on Sunday. The comments came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}