Republican Lawmaker Breaks Ranks to Defy Trump Over Ukraine

  • Fitzpatrick vows to do ‘whatever it takes’ to stop Putin
  • Republicans have shown little appetite to challenge president
Brian Fitzpatrick Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg
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Congressional Republicans are beginning to put up more forceful resistance to Donald Trump’s sharp turn away from Ukraine’s president, warning that they won’t tolerate concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The question is whether any of it will matter.