Thread by @Skip80Cat

I will try and look into these sanctions to examine their scope when I get time.

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1027270994409517056

2/ The administration's announcement came after demands from GOP chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ed Royce of CA. Royce called on Trump to hold Russia accountable for the #Skripal poisonings & publicly chastised Trump for not acting quickly on the matter.

3/ "Your findings were due to the committee within 60 days," Royce wrote in a July 26 letter to Trump. "Ninety-three days have now passed since my request, yet we have not received the statutorily required determination." foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/…

4/ The sanctions limit Ru’s ability to purchase sensitive natl security goods from US (engines, circuits, etc). Now, such purchases are approved on case-by-case basis. Those purchases will now be denied w some exceptions related to Intl Space Station & commercial flight safety.

5/ What is IMPORTANT to understand is that this new round of sanctions was NOT DISCRETIONARY, as MSM has reported them to be. The sanctions were automatic sanctions under a 1991 law passed by Congress, the Chemical and Biological Weapons and Warfare Elimination Act.

6/ The State Dept announced just yesterday it determined the Ru govt had "used chemical or biological weapons” in violation of international law. state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/20…

7/ It took the Trump Admin over 4 MONTHS to issue the necessary findings that Russia was responsible for the #Skripal poisonings. That determination — which Congress had been pushing the Trump admin to make since March — triggers mandatory sanctions under a 1991 U.S. law.

8/ U.S. lawmakers had asked the Trump administration to make the formal determination to trigger sanctions in March. Of course, @FoxNews is, once again, spreading disinformation regarding the facts relating to these sanctions.