{"id":17433,"date":"2026-01-08T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/graham-trump-greenlit-tough-russia-sanctions-bill-amid-rising-tensions-in-north-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:21:01","slug":"graham-trump-greenlit-tough-russia-sanctions-bill-amid-rising-tensions-in-north-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/graham-trump-greenlit-tough-russia-sanctions-bill-amid-rising-tensions-in-north-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham: Trump &#8216;greenlit&#8217; tough Russia sanctions bill amid rising tensions in North Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a prominent defense hawk, says President Trump &ldquo;greenlit&rdquo; a long-delayed bipartisan Senate bill to impose tough sanctions on Russia amid rising tensions Wednesday in the North Atlantic, where Russia deployed a submarine to protect a fleeing oil tanker. Senate Republicans have talked for months about voting on a strong Russia sanctions&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5677880-senate-russia-sanctions-vote\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a prominent defense hawk, says President Trump &ldquo;greenlit&rdquo; a long-delayed bipartisan Senate bill to impose tough sanctions on Russia amid rising tensions Wednesday in the North Atlantic, where Russia deployed a submarine to protect a fleeing oil tanker. Senate Republicans have talked for months about voting on a strong Russia sanctions&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433","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=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}