https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-po...=.946b42b0c015In a rebuke to the Trump administration, 136 Republicans joined House Democrats Thursday to oppose a Treasury Department plan to lift sanctions against companies controlled by an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The overwhelming 362 to 53 vote will not prevent the Trump administration from easing sanctions on three companies connected to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, as Senate Republicans narrowly blocked a similar measure on Wednesday
Fortunately for Trump, Mitch McConnell's pet monkeys in the Senate saved the Cheeto-in-Chief's commodious ass on this.
Otherwise, he surely would have been down checked on his next performance review in Moscow.