The Senate passed a resolution on Monday condemning white supremacist organizations, urging President Donald Trump to speak out against hate groups, The Hill reports. The resolution, introduced last week by Senators Mark Warner, Johnny Isakson, Tim Kaine and Cory Gardner, was passed unanimously.
The document formally condemns “the violence and domestic terrorist attack” that occurred last month around a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The resolution also urges Trump and the administrationto “address the growing prevalence of those hate groups in the United States.”
The Hill adds that senators also want Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate “all acts of violence, intimidation and domestic terrorism” by white supremacists, white nationalists or associated groups and prevent them “from fomenting and facilitating additional violence.”
Trump received widespread criticism for his response to violence in Virginia last month, including saying during a press conference that both what he called “alt-left” and white nationalist groups and there were “very fine people” on both sides.
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