{"id":15854,"date":"2025-11-20T03:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-plots-path-for-russia-sanctions-bill-with-trumps-blessing-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:20:31","slug":"congress-plots-path-for-russia-sanctions-bill-with-trumps-blessing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-plots-path-for-russia-sanctions-bill-with-trumps-blessing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress plots path for Russia sanctions bill with Trump&#8217;s blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are quietly discussing how to quickly move new Russia sanctions legislation &mdash; this time with President Donald Trump&rsquo;s blessing. &ldquo;The president has now weighed in, in support of the Russia sanctions legislation,&rdquo; Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Wednesday, adding that he believed the House would need to make the first move in advancing the measure&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/19\/congress\/congress-plots-path-forward-on-russia-sanctions-bill-with-trumps-blessing-00660067\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are quietly discussing how to quickly move new Russia sanctions legislation &mdash; this time with President Donald Trump&rsquo;s blessing. &ldquo;The president has now weighed in, in support of the Russia sanctions legislation,&rdquo; Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Wednesday, adding that he believed the House would need to make the first move in [&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-15854","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\/15854","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=15854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}