Graham: Senate will move ‘soon’ on Russia, China sanctions

The Hill ^ | 7/8/2025 | FILIP TIMOTIJA

[marcusmaximus]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that the Senate will move “soon” on a “tough” Russia sanctions bill that will also penalize the Kremlin’s top energy recipients, China and India.

“President @realDonaldTrump is spot on about the games Putin is playing,” Graham said in a Tuesday post on X. “The Senate will move soon on a tough sanctions bill – not only against Russia – but also against countries like China and India that buy Russian energy products that finance Putin’s war machine. The Senate bill has a presidential waiver to give President Trump maximum leverage.”

“When it comes to Putin and those who support his war machine, it is time to change the game,” added the South Carolina Republican, a prominent supporter of Ukraine in the Senate.

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The measure would impose a 500 percent tariff on imports from any nation that purchases Russian uranium, gas and oil. Graham has been in constant contact with Trump about the bill and lawmakers in the upper chamber are waiting for the president’s approval to bring it to the floor.

Graham is proposing a carveout to his bill to spare countries who still import Russian gas, but have supported Ukraine in their three-year war with the Kremlin’s military.

“A lot of countries still buy Russian oil and gas but less. Some European countries still have relationships with Russia, but they’ve been very helpful to Ukraine. So I want to carve them out,” Graham told reporters last month.

“There’s some of our allies who’ve really helped Ukraine but would be affected by the bill, they’ve earned their way to get a carveout,” the senator added. “Those who have helped Ukraine, meaningfully, will get a carveout. In other words you’ll incentivize people to help Ukraine.”

[ReganFan4ever]

LOL!

I see what you did there. And he is BTW.

[Sirius Lee]

How about the Senate takes up Homelessness among Veterans?Her crazed eyes bulging from the slit in her hijab, Linda Graham screeched “America Last!” Her ululations drowning out the muffled cries of the young boy hidden beneath her robes.