The Trump administration has quietly maintained an Obama-era approach to countering aggression from Moscow even as the president’s dismissal of Russian meddling in the election and warm words toward that country’s leader have scandalized Washington.
It approved the largest commercial sale of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine since 2014 — a move that earned praise from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill — and implemented sanctions targeting people in Russia for human rights abuses under a U.S. law some onlookers fretted the president might try to evade.
New York gave the country not one, but two presidential nominees in 2016. The next contest may bring more of the same.
Five prominent Democrats from the greater New York-area are eying bids for the White House in the next presidential cycle, which would again put the nation’s top media market at the center of national politics.