Whereas on March 4, 2018, former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury, England, and a responding police officer, Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, was also hospitalized; Whereas on March 6, 2018, British counterterrorism police stated that they were investigating the incident and the Government of the United Kingdom stated it would consider strengthening sanctions if the Kremlin was found to have played a role; Whereas on March 7, 2018, police in the United Kingdom stated that a nerve agent was used to attack the Skripals and that they were treating the case as attempted murder; Whereas on March 12, 2018, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, publicly accused Russia of using a military grade nerve agent and warned of response, including suspension of high-level contacts, asset freezes, responses by the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and possible covert action pending an accounting of the attack from the Government of the Russian Federation; Whereas on March 13, 2018, Russia called the charge nonsense and rejected the ultimatum to account for the attack, warning of repercussions if Prime Minister May took punitive measures; Whereas on March 13, 2018, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, spoke with Prime Minister May and stated that the United States stands in solidarity with its closest ally and is ready to provide any assistance the United Kingdom requests for its investigation and that the Government of the Russian Federation must provide unambiguous answers regarding how this chemical weapon, developed in Russia, came to be used in the United Kingdom ; Whereas on March 14, 2018, Prime Minister May ordered 23 Russian undeclared intelligence agents expelled from the United Kingdom