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US President Donald Trump intends to study in detail the draft law on additional sanctions against Russia before signing it. This was stated by the press secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders, reports Reuters.

According to her, Trump wants to figure out whether the introduction of new sanctions against Russia will be a “good deal” for the American people. “He plans to study the bill to figure out what he is in the end,” Sanders noted.

At the same time, Sanders said on Sunday on the ABC News television channel that Trump would maintain sanctions against Moscow , as his administration occupies a “tough position against Russia”.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the Senate Republican Bob Corker called "several premature" reports that both chambers of the Congress completely agreed on the document. “There are still some procedural issues that we are discussing, but, you know, I think we have done a very, very good job, but we still have what you can talk about relative to North Korea,” Korker said.

In the new version of the text of the bill on additional sanctions against Russia and Iran, there are no references to measures against the DPRK on Saturday. However, a number of congressmen insist that they should also be included in the document.

Voting in the House of Representatives is scheduled for Tuesday, July 25 . To adopt the bill, it will be necessary that at least two -thirds of the deputies vote for it. It was reported that the document was agreed with the Senate and will also receive full support there.

The document provides for the consolidation of the previous orders of the US administration at the legislative level. In addition, he imposes additional sanctions against Russia for interfering in the American presidential campaign last year. The bill also obliges the US president to coordinate any softening of sanctions with Congress.

The initial version of the document was adopted by the Senate on June 14 . 97 members of the upper house were supported by his support; Against - only Republicans Mike Lee and Rand Paul.

After that, the draft law was transferred to the House of Representatives, however, on June 19 , the vote was postponed there and sent the document for consideration to the Foreign Committee. Repeatedly to the lower ward the bill was introduced on July 12 .