The Senate works Russia sanctions the bill while Trump changes its tone on Russia

An effort to advance a set of puffed sanctions against Russia and its business partners is winning again in the Senate, and this time it seems that President Donald Trump is on board.

A bill of sanctions law advanced by Sens. Lindsey GrahamRs.C., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Was widely sidelined while the Senate sprouts to reach its deadline of July 4 to adopt “Big and Beautiful Bill” by Trump, but returned to the corridor.

The duo bill would take up up to 500% of the prices on countries buying Moscow energy products, effectively placing the Russian war machine in a strangulation by imposing oil, gas, uranium and other exports, widely bought by China and India, which represent nearly three quarters of the Moscow energy sector.

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President Donald Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham (Getty Images)

But the bill struck a snag at the White House, where Trump argued that he wanted to continue the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and that he also wanted more flexibility on the sanctions proposed in the bill.

However, there was a tonal change in Trump’s opinion on Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Graham thinks Trump is now on board the plan.

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Senator Richard Blumenthal speaks to the press outside the Senate rooms after voting in the American Capitol on February 27, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)

“My goal is to put them on the president’s office before the August break. We got 85 co-sponsors,” he said. “There is a derogation in the bill to give the president’s lever effect. I spoke to the president last week. He thinks that the bill will be useful. So we will therefore bring him.”

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On the changes that come to the bill, Blumenthal said that the renunciation authority making its way to the legislation was to resolve the “technical problems” on how strict sanctions would affect the global financial system, how American allies could be affected and offer Trump more flexibility on the way sanctions are perceived against Russia business partners.

“Trump sees what we have all recognized is that Putin plays for free in the United States,” he said about the Chair of the President Tone towards Putin.

“He blocks and Stonewalling, continuing his aerial reign of terror on Ukrainian civilians and his atrocities against kidnapped children,” said Blumenthal. “The president simply reflects the fact that Putin has no interest in peace. He wants domination.”

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The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, speaks at a press conference at the American Capitol on June 17, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Head of the majority of the Senate John ThuneRs.d., wants to obtain the invoice on the ground by the end of the month, and noted that the upper room was working in collaboration with the house and the White House to “obtain it in a form where it is ready”.

However, he said it was an “open question” as to the Graham and Blumenthal bill could obtain a vote.

“I think it’s an important message to send, especially now, and I think it’s a lever we need,” said Thune.

Although the bill has a large bipartisan support in the Senate and the support of the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber, R-La., All the Senate republicans are not on board the plan.

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Senator HikeL, r-ky., Accused the measure of “not a bill for Russian sanctions. It is a global tariff bill of embargo”.

He argued that the bill would institute “500%prices” in any country that does business with Russia, and noted that there are a handful of European Union countries which depend on Russian oil and gas.

Paul also accused of slapping China of such a heavy sanction would be more trade with the country.

“It is the most economical and economic bill on the economic level ever presented in modern history,” he said.