Two Senate Democrats Oppose Removal of Sanctions on Hungarian Official
Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the Trump administration April 18 to reverse its decision to remove Hungarian official Antal Rogan from a Treasury Department sanctions list (see 2504170045).
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The senators said that delisting Rogan just three months after he was designated “erodes U.S. credibility on anti-corruption policy.” Rogan was sanctioned in the final days of the Biden administration for corruptly diverting money from the country’s strategic sectors for himself and his loyalists (see 2501070020).
The senators also said their committees didn't receive advance notification of the Trump administration’s decision, though that is required by law.
Treasury didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the senators' statement, but the State Department said April 15 that Rogan's "continued designation was inconsistent with U.S. foreign policy interests."