Washington — The Trump administration supports the current version of a bill to sanction Russia, the new White House press secretary said, although her boss, Anthony Scaramucci, would not guarantee that President Donald Trump will sign it. The legislation, which could soon land on Trump’s desk for a signature, was not the only area where Trump’s handpicked communications director differed from others in the administration on Sunday, after taking the job on Friday. Scaramucci and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders — also named to her role on Friday, along with Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s lawyers — were the administration’s collective face on Sunday’s political talk shows. The interviews came days after both teams were shaken up in an effort by Trump to impose order on his White House in the face of a widening Russia probe. Sanders’s comments on sanctions followed a tentative deal reached by Republican and Democratic leaders in the House to move ahead this week on a measure that, ...
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