Efforts within Congress to overturn Trump's order to withdraw US troops from Syria

POSTED ON 2019-10-15 BY SOTALIRAQ

[size=52]Efforts within Congress to overturn Trump's order to withdraw US troops from Syria[/size]

[size=45]US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday she had agreed with Republicans the need to issue a resolution repealing President Donald Trump's "dangerous" decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria, where Turkish forces are launching an offensive against Kurdish fighters.
[size=45]"Democrats and Republicans in Congress are pushing ahead with a resolution that would impose broad sanctions on Turkey for its military operation," Pelosi said. "The measures the White House plans are not enough."[/size]
[size=45]Trump threatened to impose sanctions on Turkey to stop its attack in northern Syria, but to no avail, and Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from the Kurdish-controlled area paving the way for the Turkish attack, faced widespread criticism inside his country, and considered a betrayal of the Kurds, who allied with the United States to defeat the organization ISIS. ”[/size]
[size=45]Pelosi said she had held talks with prominent Senator Lindsey Graham, the hard-line Republican Trump is listening to, and with whom he strongly disagreed over his decision to withdraw from Syria.[/size]
[size=45]"Our top priority was to agree that we should pass a bipartisan and congressional resolution to immediately annul the president's dangerous decision in Syria," she wrote in a tweet on Twitter.[/size]
[size=45]"The package of sanctions that the White House intends to impose will probably not satisfy angry members of Congress, including Republicans," she said.[/size]
[size=45]"Because the president has given the green light to the Turks for bombing, and thus actually unleashing ISIS, we have to put in place a harsher set of sanctions than the White House proposes," she said.[/size]
[size=45]Earlier in the day, Sen. Graham said that "Congress will quickly take action that is supported by the Republican and Democratic parties."[/size]
[size=45]He told Fox News that Erdogan "made the biggest political mistake of his life," stressing: "I have never seen such support from both parties. We all rushed our agent from Erdogan. ”[/size]
[size=45]"The Republicans and Democrats working with the administration will impose severe sanctions similar to those imposed on Iran, and he deserves it," he said. We will rearrange things. ”[/size]
[size=45]The US Treasury Secretary, Stephen Mnuchin, announced last Friday, that "the US president ordered strict sanctions against Ankara," but has not yet been activated.[/size]
[size=45]Since announcing the withdrawal of US troops from positions on the Turkish-Syrian border eight days ago, Trump has given contradictory signals while stressing that Americans should free themselves from the Middle East wars, while threatening Turkey with "destroying its economy."[/size]


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