President Trump will continue a 2015 state of national emergency that President Obama used as a basis for freezing the assets of Russians tied to a hacking campaign aimed at disrupting the presidential election.
In a letter to Congress titled “Message to the Congress Regarding the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities,” Trump renewed the order signed in April 2015. The executive order would have expired without renewal.
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