A bipartisan group of four key lawmakers renewed their calls on the Donald Trump administration to implement a stringent sanctions package on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad government today.
The chairmen and ranking members of the foreign relations panels in both chambers — Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), and Sens. James Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) — joined forces to issue the statement ahead of the June 17 deadline to issue the sanctions under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which became law in December 2019.
