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Trump Halts New Russian Sanctions, Reversing Haley

April 16, 2018 at 2:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump “put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as ‘international economic raiding,'” the Washington Post reports.

“The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement.”

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