Trump ally: US should ‘start all over again’ with Russia

Published January 28, 2017 6:34pm ET



One of President Trump’s staunchest foreign policy allies in Congress wants him to reverse the sanctions imposed by the Obama administration in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

“I would hope that our president removes those sanctions and tells President Putin that we’re going to start all over again,” Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who chairs the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, told the Washington Examiner. “He’s not going to call it a reset, because that’s become a cliche, but we’re going to take away these sanctions and build a whole new relationship which facilitates working together to attain mutually-beneficial goals — rather than the current policy, which is unending hostility and belligerence toward Russia, no matter what it does.”

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