{"id":11113,"date":"2025-07-09T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-now-backs-tough-russia-sanctions-bill-graham-says-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:21:08","slug":"trump-now-backs-tough-russia-sanctions-bill-graham-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-now-backs-tough-russia-sanctions-bill-graham-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump now backs tough Russia sanctions bill, Graham says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill targeting Russia with substantial new sanctions is gaining momentum in the Senate, with a key GOP senator signaling Tuesday that President Donald Trump is now on board. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re moving,&rdquo; said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the bill&rsquo;s author, adding that Trump &ldquo;told me it&#8217;s time to move so we&rsquo;re going to move.&rdquo; Graham joined Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican senators in signaling a scheduling announcement later this week&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/08\/congress\/senate-russia-sanctions-lindsey-graham-00443192\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill targeting Russia with substantial new sanctions is gaining momentum in the Senate, with a key GOP senator signaling Tuesday that President Donald Trump is now on board. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re moving,&rdquo; said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the bill&rsquo;s author, adding that Trump &ldquo;told me it&#8217;s time to move so we&rsquo;re going to move.&rdquo; Graham joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}