U. S. President Donald Trump and a group of Republicans from the Senate and House of Representatives met at the White House on Wednesday to discuss their disagreement over how to penalize Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corp.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U. S. President Donald Trump and a group of Republicans from the Senate and House of Representatives met at the White House on Wednesday to discuss their disagreement over how to penalize Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corp.
The Trump administration moved to lift a ban on the company doing business with U. S. suppliers, but the Republican-led U. S. Senate on Monday included an amendment to kill the settlement as part of a defense policy bill it approved.
White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters had said the meeting would focus on the “problematic” amendment to the defense bill, but the gathering ended up largely addressing an ongoing furor about the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U. S. border.
After the meeting, a spokeswoman for Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who attended and is a lead sponsor of the amendment, said ZTE was discussed, but offered no further details.
