Samantha-Jo Roth joined the Washington Examiner in October 2022, covering Congress and campaigns, specifically focusing on the Senate. She previously worked as an on-air correspondent, covering the Florida congressional delegation for Spectrum News.
Senate Republicans are introducing legislation to permanently freeze $6 billion in Iranian assets that was recently released by the U.S. as President Joe Biden heads to Israel Wednesday.
.@MarshaBlackburn: “This is not the time for us to stay silent. Despite what the Democrats and the squad believe, it’s not the time for Israel to back down.” pic.twitter.com/LQ2hOZHGzMThe assets were released to Iran through Qatar as part of a prisoner exchange. “The administration is at least backing away from that ill-advised move, but I think we need to make that, codify that, and put that into law,” said Sen. John Thune , the Senate’s No. 2 Republican."There will be an attempt to do that and get unanimous consent to permanently freeze that $6.6 billion that was going to be made available to Iran.”
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