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{"id":25654,"date":"2026-07-10T21:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/russia-sanctions-legislation-gets-green-light-from-white-house-lawmakers-say\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:17:16","slug":"russia-sanctions-legislation-gets-green-light-from-white-house-lawmakers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/russia-sanctions-legislation-gets-green-light-from-white-house-lawmakers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sanctions legislation gets green light from White House, lawmakers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A bipartisan group of senators said Friday they reached an agreement with President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration to move forward a new version of legislation to sanction buyers of Russian oil, potentially advancing a long-stalled effort to ramp up pressure on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51186\" data-person-id=\"51186\">Lindsey Graham<\/a> (R-S.C.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-polytics\/4143046-senators-graham-and-blumenthal-reach-agreement-with-trump-administration-on-russia-sanctions-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters in Kyiv<\/a>, where he\u2019s visiting, that the lawmakers have been working closely with the administration on a version of the legislation that would be \u201cacceptable\u201d to the White House and that was \u201cwritten in a way they could support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither he nor his colleagues in the effort \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/66834\" data-person-id=\"66834\">Jeanne Shaheen<\/a> (D-N.H.), <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/151824\" data-person-id=\"151824\">Richard Blumenthal<\/a> (D-Conn.) and <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51675\" data-person-id=\"51675\">Roger Wicker<\/a> (R-Miss.) \u2014 provided details on the legislative text.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has resisted full support of legislation to limit the flow of funds to Moscow\u2019s war chest through sanctions on countries purchasing Russian oil, in addition to Russian officials and entities. Instead, the administration has pushed for the bill to give Trump more latitude to pursue negotiations with Moscow to end the war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But now might be the lawmakers\u2019 moment to clinch White House backing. Trump has appeared to shift his stance on the more than four-year-long war of late, telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit this week that he would grant Kyiv licenses to produce Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine\u2019s defense against Russian ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Russia intensifies its slaughter of civilians, it is imperative that the legislative and executive branches work together to create tools to exact a heavy price on those who buy Russian oil and natural gas, fueling the Putin war machine,\u201d Graham, Shaheen, Blumenthal and Wicker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/press\/dem\/release\/shaheen-blumenthal-graham-wicker-announce-agreement-on-legislation-to-hold-purchasers-of-russian-oil-accountable\" target=\"_blank\">said in a joint statement<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers added that they expected to roll out the updated legislation \u201cvery soon,\u201d but didn\u2019t give a timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The Graham-led effort to curtail cash flow to Russia\u2019s war machine has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/23\/congress\/senators-eye-sanctions-vote-after-trump-targets-russian-oil-00620847\" target=\"_blank\">appeared to advance<\/a> multiple times \u2014 only to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/14\/trump-threatens-tariffs-on-russias-trading-partners-to-pressure-putin-00452131\" target=\"_blank\">fizzle out<\/a>. In January, Graham even said he\u2019d gotten the green light from the White House on the legislation, which has more than 80 Senate cosponsors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/national-security-daily\/2026\/01\/12\/what-happened-to-grahams-sanctions-bill-00722709\" target=\"_blank\">but that didn\u2019t pan out either<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether this time is different. Trump has yet to address the latest bid to move the legislation forward, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan group of senators said Friday they reached an agreement with President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration to move forward a new version of legislation to sanction buyers of Russian oil, potentially advancing a long-stalled effort to ramp up pressure on Moscow. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters in Kyiv, where he\u2019s visiting, that the lawmakers [&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-25654","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\/25654","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=25654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}