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The bipartisan duo tends to impose strict sanctions on Russia Donald Trump Some runways are after his latest attitude toward Moscow.
RS.C. Senators Lindsey Graham and D-Conn. Richard Blumenthal urged strict sanctions on Russia and its energy trading partners, who have been working to refine their bills to meet the requirements White House This makes Trump more flexible.
The bill is bound by Congressional Republicans’ efforts to pass the president’s “big and beautiful bill” and may vote at the end of this month.
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President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey on July 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
But Trump announced that he would impose 100% tariffs on Moscow unless the Russian president Vladimir Putin Agreeing to end the war with Ukraine could be in trouble again, and both parties are not angry about it.
“It sounds like the president will try to do some of it himself right now,” said the Senate Majority Leader. John ThuneRs.D. Tell reporters. “If the president came to the conclusion at some point, it makes sense and added the value and benefit he needed in the negotiation to file a bill, then we can do it. We’re ready to start.”
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Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C. , located in the East Room of the White House, Washington, September 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
After the president agreed to sell weapons to NATO, the president’s warning was in turn sent to Ukraine to replenish its continued decline in stocks.
“We are glad that the president has such a way of doing business. We will continue to work with the White House to see if we can provide him with the tools Congress has been working on,” Graham said.
Their bill would reach 500% tariffs on countries that purchase energy products from Moscow, thereby imposing tariffs on oil, gas, uranium and other exports, the Russian war machine purchased by China and India, which accounted for nearly three-quarters of Moscow’s energy operations.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal spoke to reporters outside the Senate Building in Washington on February 27, 2025. (Getty Image)
But that doesn’t mean that the bill’s work has stopped. Graham pointed out that Congress “blessings” are good for the president” and can help him legally and politically.
“But between the weapons flowing in tariffs on the table and the sanctions, I think we can say today a game-changer, and we’ve been waiting and hoping, on Day 51, you want to know what will happen,” Graham said. “Call Ayatolla.”
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Blumenthal praised Trump’s transformation and gave him “a view through the ridicule and blasphemy of Vladimir Putin”. He argued that the bill had dozens of co-sponsors with the support of the Senate and House Speaker of the House. Mike JohnsonR-la. It has had an impact and pointed out that Trump’s actions are like a “hammer”.
“Our bill is a sledgehammer,” Blumenthal said.
