{"id":78717,"date":"2026-09-15T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/us-lawmakers-spar-over-bill-giving-trump-more-power-to-sanction-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:55:12","slug":"us-lawmakers-spar-over-bill-giving-trump-more-power-to-sanction-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/us-lawmakers-spar-over-bill-giving-trump-more-power-to-sanction-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers spar over bill giving Trump more power to sanction Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proponents say sanctions would help Ukraine, but some Democrats say Trump shouldn\u2019t have more tariff authority<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/sep\/15\/supreme-court-mail-ballot-restrictions-midterm-elections-trump-ai-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A bill co-authored by Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who died earlier this year, that would give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> broad authority to tariff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/russia\">Russia<\/a> and its trading partners will be put forward for a vote this week in a high-stakes legislative battle that could provide new sanctioning authority to the US president at a crucial moment in Russia\u2019s war against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is facing considerable pushback not only from Ukraine-sceptic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a>, however, but also from prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> who say that the bill will give undue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/tariffs\">tariff<\/a> power to the US president that could then be abused and turned against US allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/15\/congress-tariff-legislation-trump-russia-ukraine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proponents say sanctions would help Ukraine, but some Democrats say Trump shouldn\u2019t have more tariff authority US politics live \u2013 latest updates A bill co-authored by Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who died earlier this year, that would give Donald Trump broad authority to tariff Russia and its trading partners will be put forward &#8230; <a title=\"US lawmakers spar over bill giving Trump more power to sanction Russia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/us-lawmakers-spar-over-bill-giving-trump-more-power-to-sanction-russia\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US lawmakers spar over bill giving Trump more power to sanction Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}