When they're not busy keeping government closed, they're colluding with Putin and his puppet Donald "Rump" Trump:
Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, defeated a bipartisan bid to keep sanctions in place against companies owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The Trump administration announced last month it was planning to remove the sanctions targeting the energy and mining magnate, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Three of Deripaska’s companies were sanctioned last April by the Treasury Department as part of an effort to target Deripaska and six other oligarchs. At the time, the administration said this action was in response to the Russian government’s involvement with “malign activity” around the world and the reality that oligarchs “profit from this corrupt system.” Deripaska has emerged as a key figure in the Russia scandal, primarily through his connections with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.Only eleven Republicans voted with Democrats to allow a vote on maintaining the sanctions. Among the majority of Republicans who voted to lift the sanctions was (wait for it) media darling and man of character Sen. Willard "Millionaire Mitt" Romney (R- Ghost of Flake). Always the slick weasel.
