Senate Republicans drop bid to block Trump from helping Chinese telecom giant ZTE

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

By Erica Werner
July 20 at 3:20 PM

Senate Republicans have dropped their attempt to reimpose U.S. sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE, lawmakers said Friday, a victory for President Trump as congressional Republicans abandoned a rare effort to thwart his agenda.

The retreat means ZTE, a company found guilty of selling U.S. goods to Iran in violation of sanctions, will duck Commerce Department penalties that bar U.S. companies from doing business with it. U.S. and Chinese officials had said those penalties would effectively put ZTE out of business.

Trump had ordered his own Commerce Department to lift the penalties as part of a broader negotiating strategy with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but senators voted to reimpose them as part of a sweeping defense policy bill they passed last month.

But the House version of the defense bill did not include the same provision. And senators have now decided to leave it out of the final compromise bill, agreeing to language advanced by the House instead. The House language bars U.S. government agencies and contractors from doing business with ZTE, but allows the company to continue doing business with private U.S. firms.

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[sandensea]

1. Incestvanka must have gotten another billion or two from Beijing.

Ka-ching.

[sakabatou]

2. Cowards

[guillaumeb]

3. Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, John McCain,

where are all of the principled conservatives?

[ananda]

4. principled conservative seems like an oxymoron these days

..

[guillaumeb]

5. Principal is their only principle. eom

[keithbvadu2]

9. OUCH!

[Honeycombe8]

14. It takes more than 4 to sway anything in the House.

To be fair, it's hard to go against the majority in your own party. What if 4 reps went against Pelosi? Why would they, if there is no chance of succeeding?

You have to pick your battles.

But it shows that Trump owns the majority of Rushpublishans in the House.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. First of all, none of those people are in the House. Second senators

could put pressure on McConnell to bring this up. And 3rd, fuck party. These jackasses are always talking about "national security, blah, blah, blah..". Well guess what. This is about national security.

[Honeycombe8]

20. I misspoke. I meant Senate. I of course know that McCain & Collins, etc., are Senators.

I know we're anti-Republican, but just pointing out the double standard. You can't legitimately blame just four Senators, who have been the only ones to vote against Trump at any time, for being responsible for any bill passing because they didn't oppose it.

Following your logic, McCain should have voted to repeal Obamacare & replace it with the skinny bill...since it's all the same to you. No difference between McCain and McConnell.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. The Sanctimony Caucus sure as shit gets a lot of the blame for where

we are. McCain gets somewhat of a pass given his condition. But also given the fact that he has nothing to lose. He could've easily quit the fascist party months ago and caucused with the Democrats. Since he's known before most the kind of traitor that's sitting in the White House.
And no I'm not sure you understand how the Senate and the House work. Because then you'd know how much one single senator can gun up the works if the wanted to. Like the late Jim Jeffords did.
As for the rest of that word salad. I'm not even gonna bother.

[Honeycombe8]

23. Caucused with the Democrats? What are you talking about?

Should Pelosi caucus with the Repubilcans?

Be realistic. Those four have no more power than the Democrats. THEY are not in charge. THEY don't belong to the group that has the power. THEY have done SOME of what they can, when they want or don't want something to pass. THEY ARE REPUBLICANS. They are not against tax cuts and such. They WANT to repeal or revise Obamacare, if something is in place to replace it.

Holding some of the Republicans who DO have the strength of character to speak up, when almost no one else does, shows that you just are against Republicans, period. No matter what they do or don't do. You make no distinction between McConnell and McCain.

So that ends any reasonable discussion on the matter.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

25. Yeah they could switch any fucking time they wanted to and it's been done

before. But since you don't seem to understand the difference between House and Senate. This all seems like a waste of time. You wanna make excuses for these fuckers while seemingly being unaware of historical precedent. Knock yourself out. The republican party has become a rancid piece of dog shit. If your ads still can't see that. It's too damn bad. I've been accused of much worse. By better informed people.

I'll say it one last time. Jim "Muthafucking" Jeffords......

[beachbum bob]

6. could be a campaign issue in key races

where job losses have or are happening and GOP/trump bailing out chinese. Would make an effective 30 sec tv ad

[keithbvadu2]

10. ...works wonders to make America protect Chinese jobs.

UPDATED: Trump pledges to help Chinese phonemaker ZTE 'get back into business'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142058783

ZTE, a company involved in hacking American cyber security.


A $500 million loan to Trump related projects works wonders to make America protect Chinese jobs.

Too bad our coal miners did not think of that.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Donald: "Too many jobs in China lost."

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/statuses/995680316458262533

[Achilleaze]

7. #RepublicanSurrender

#ShanghaiSurrender (R)
#HelsinkiSurrender (R)
#ZTEsurrender (R)

repubes are good at appeasement, and weakening America's economic power and security. So that's something - something deplorable.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. This might get revisited anytime Trump leaves office

If we can undo the Iran deal, we can renegotiate this type of stuff too

[Midnight Writer]

12. TrumpWinning

[turbinetree]

13. Why am I not surprised...................traitors enabling a traitor...............

a phone that can be eavesdropped and opened without the user knowledge, by a Communist owed company.......

Anyone tell these elected officials that the chips in the phones are communist made..............

[BadGimp]

16. The GOP is now The #PartyOfPutin

[Qutzupalotl]

17. Hey Jared, I bought you a phone.

First of its kind. Why don’t you take it everywhere you go. You’re welcome.

[SunSeeker]

18. America first!

[Firestorm49]

22. Ah, what balls they haven't.

Gutless, complicit cowards - each and every one of them.
And by the way, good luck to all of us at the mid-terms.

[truthisfreedom]

24. Cowardly treason weasels