US senators on Sunday touted a bipartisan bill that would arm US President Donald Trump with \u201csledgehammer\u201d sanctions to use against Russia, ahead of a visit by the US special envoy to Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Trump has indicated he would be open to the sanctions bill as relations with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin<\/a> grow increasingly frosty.<\/p>\n US special envoy Keith Kellogg is expected to begin his latest visit to Ukraine while Trump said he would make a \u201cmajor statement \u2026 on Russia\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he had majority backing in the Senate for his bill, which was gaining momentum as Washington-led peace efforts in Ukraine<\/a> have struggled to make headway.The bill would allow Trump<\/a> \u201cto go after Putin\u2019s economy, and all those countries who prop up the Putin war machine\u201d, Graham told broadcaster CBS news.<\/p>\n Trump, who has repeatedly said he is \u201cdisappointed\u201d with Putin as Moscow unleashed deadly barrages of missiles against Kyiv, has hinted he might finally be ready to toughen sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US senators on Sunday touted a bipartisan bill that would arm US President Donald Trump with \u201csledgehammer\u201d sanctions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,7930,144,12,1076,2344,7932,7931,5852,7933,5855,1254,3,7934,1206,1208,21,19,22,20,25,24,6508],"class_list":["post-7754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-cbs-news","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-keith-kellogg","tag-kyiv","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-moscow","tag-nato","tag-nbc","tag-news","tag-richard-blumenthal","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}