President Trump has “greenlit” a bipartisan bill to impose tough sanctions on Russia and countries that support it, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced Wednesday.
“After a very productive meeting today with President Trump on a variety of issues, he greenlit the bipartisan Russia sanctions bill that I have been working on for months with Senator Blumenthal and many others,” Graham wrote on X.
“This will be well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent,” the South Carolina Republican continued.
Graham said the legislation will allow Trump to “punish those countries who buy cheap Russian oil fueling Putin’s war machine.”
It will also provide the president with “tremendous leverage against countries like China, India and Brazil to incentivize them to stop buying the cheap Russian oil that provides the financing for Putin’s bloodbath against Ukraine,” according to the senator.
The bill still needs to go up for a vote in Congress before it reaches Trump’s desk.
“I look forward to a strong bipartisan vote, hopefully as early as next week,” Graham said.
A White House official told The Post that the president “supports this legislation.”
