{"id":14672,"date":"2025-10-21T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/russia-sanctions-bill-on-hold-for-now-thune-says-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:20:28","slug":"russia-sanctions-bill-on-hold-for-now-thune-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/russia-sanctions-bill-on-hold-for-now-thune-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sanctions bill on hold for now, Thune says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated Monday that legislation slapping new sanctions on Russia and its trading partners is on hold until after an upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. &ldquo;I think they&rsquo;re thinking that &mdash; see how this meeting goes in a couple of weeks with Putin,&rdquo; Thune told reporters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/20\/congress\/russia-sanctions-bill-on-hold-thune-00615652\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated Monday that legislation slapping new sanctions on Russia and its trading partners is on hold until after an upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. &ldquo;I think they&rsquo;re thinking that &mdash; see how this meeting goes in a couple of weeks with Putin,&rdquo; Thune told [&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-14672","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\/14672","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=14672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}