Republicans tear into Biden for being slow to sanction Putin, BOTH parties demand crackdown

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on President Biden to get tough with sanctioning Russia after it moved troops into eastern Ukraine. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday sent troops into the pro-Russian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as he declared those regions independent republics and no longer a part of Ukraine. 

Biden imposed some new sanctions on Monday prohibiting trade with the Kremlin-backed regions, but administration officials refused to call Putin’s move an ‘invasion.’ The Biden administration has insisted that it uses sanctions as leverage and is trying to stave off a full-blown invasion. 

The president is expected to announced more…