"It's time to move forward with your bill." American Senator Lindsay Graham said Trump is ready to tighten sanctions against Russia

Donald Trump believes that the time has come to “move forward” with the bill on tightening sanctions against Russia, the senator and author of the initiative Lindsay Graham said in an interview with ABC News.

According to the senator, the day before he played Golf with Trump, and the president first told him: "It's time to move forward with your bill." Graham replied that this was Trump’s decision, and explained that the senators were giving the president a “instrument” to put Vladimir Putin at the negotiating table.

Graham specified that the bill will be considered “after the July break” in the work of the Senate.

The senator also explained how the bill will work. “If you buy products from Russia and do not help Ukraine, then 500% of the fee apply to your goods entering the United States,” he said. According to the senator, the bill will allow the president to introduce duties against China, India and other countries buying Russian oil and thus supporting Putin’s military machine.

• In the spring of 2025, senators submitted a two -party bill on primary and secondary sanctions against Russia if it refuses negotiations about the world in Ukraine or tore off an agreement. Its authors were the Republican Lindsay Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal. The bill provides for duties of 500% for imports from countries buying Russian oil, oil products, natural gas or uranium. Sanctions are also implied against any country buying uranium from Russia.
• The bill was supported by more than 80 out of 100 senators. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration in recent weeks tried to force Graham to soften the wording and offered to add exceptions to the document that would allow the president to choose, with respect to whom restrictions will be introduced. Blimental confirmed that private consultations were going on with the White House, but refused to comment on their essence.