Hudson, Members Call on President Biden to Postpone Meeting with Vladimir Putin

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of a scheduled summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) is calling on the President to postpone the meeting following a string of cyberattacks originating in Russia. Rep. Hudson co-led a letter to President Biden with Rep. Jim Banks (IN-03), along with 10 other Members of the House of Representatives.

"Dialogue between our countries is important. However, a summit sends the wrong message at this time," the Members write. "The barrage of cyberattacks from Russia must end immediately and together we can send a strong message to Russia, and the world, that the United States will not be intimidated when we are tested."

Read the entire letter here.

Rep. Hudson has stated that a summit between Presidents Biden and Putin, in addition to President Biden giving a green-light to Russia's Nord Stream II pipeline, send the wrong message following cyberattacks on the Colonial Pipeline and JBS. Rep. Hudson, who is a chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly First Committee, called on Putin to do more to stop the cyberattacks and not harbor those responsible.