Trump Leans on Europe to Use Oil as Pressure Point on Putin

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior White House correspondent Jennifer A. Dlouhy looks at how the president is trying to use energy supplies to pressure Russia on Ukraine. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

President Donald Trump has been threatening for months to mount a new economic pressure campaign against Vladimir Putin by slapping tariffs on countries that buy Russia’s crude. The idea is to starve Moscow of the revenue that’s funding the three-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine.