Lawmakers press Biden for tougher Russia sanctions over Ukraine invasion
By Cristina Marcos and Mike Lillis - 02/24/22 06:01 PM EST
Lawmakers in both parties wasted no time on Thursday pressing President Biden to impose tougher sanctions on Russia, saying the economic penalties levied to date don’t go far enough to punish President Vladimir Putin for his imperial designs on Ukraine.
Even Democratic allies urged Biden to go beyond the latest set of sanctions he unveiled earlier in the day, which were aimed at curbing Russia’s access to foreign capital, hobbling the financial freedoms of Moscow’s wealthy elite and preventing Putin’s military from obtaining the latest high-tech weapons systems.
The full-scale military incursion into Ukraine, they argued, merits the toughest possible penalties in the form of cutting off Russia’s access to an international messaging system for banks, seizing Russian oligarchs’ assets like yachts and villas, and sanctioning Putin personally.
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