AP FACT CHECK: Snapshots from Trump's speech
Associated Press
After plenty of chatter, we may be wading into the first real constitutional dispute of the Trump administration: On Monday night, the State Department announced it would not impose Russia sanctions that Congress overwhelmingly passed in mid-2017.
But its justification for doing so has some gaping logical holes.
Here's what the State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said:
“Today, we have informed Congress that this legislation and its implementation are deterring Russian defense sales. Since the enactment of the . . . legislation, we estimate that foreign governments have abandoned planned or announced purchases of several billion dollars in Russian defense acquisitions.”
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