{"id":17391,"date":"2026-01-07T23:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-has-greenlit-russia-sanctions-bill-lindsey-graham-says\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:46:47","slug":"trump-has-greenlit-russia-sanctions-bill-lindsey-graham-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-has-greenlit-russia-sanctions-bill-lindsey-graham-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has \u2018greenlit\u2019 Russia sanctions bill, Lindsey Graham says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51186\" data-person-id=\"51186\">Lindsey Graham<\/a> said Wednesday after meeting with President Donald Trump that the Senate could vote as soon as next week to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/07\/lindsey-graham-russia-sanctions-bill-trade-embargo-00393297\" target=\"_blank\">impose new sanctions aimed at pressuring Russia<\/a> to end its war with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a very productive meeting today with President Trump on a variety of issues, he greenlit the bipartisan Russia sanctions bill that I have been working on for months with Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/151824\" data-person-id=\"151824\">[Richard] Blumenthal<\/a> and many others,\u201d Graham (R-S.C.) said in a statement, referring to the Connecticut Democrat who coauthored the long-stalled legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for the White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. Graham said a Senate vote would take place \u201chopefully as early as next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham and Senate Republican leaders have been working with the White House for months to try to reach an agreement on a final version of the legislation \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/23\/congress\/senators-eye-sanctions-vote-after-trump-targets-russian-oil-00620847\" target=\"_blank\">this isn\u2019t the first time<\/a> Graham has declared that his bill could soon move, for it to only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/14\/trump-threatens-tariffs-on-russias-trading-partners-to-pressure-putin-00452131\" target=\"_blank\">stall out again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would place secondary sanctions on countries such as China and India that buy oil and gas from Russia in a bid to cut off the cash flow for President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war machine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent,\u201d Graham said, saying the legislation would be \u201cwell-timed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Graham didn\u2019t immediately respond to a question about whether changes will be incorporated at Trump\u2019s request. The president has previously requested absolute flexibility to impose and retract any sanctions at will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday after meeting with President Donald Trump that the Senate could vote as soon as next week to impose new sanctions aimed at pressuring Russia to end its war with Ukraine. \u201cAfter a very productive meeting today with President Trump on a variety of issues, he greenlit the bipartisan Russia sanctions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391","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=17391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}