Post #4448522
2026-08-08 19:28 UTC
Well, I'd rather see almost anyone's name on this bill, but so long as it passes, hooray!
"U.S. Senate Passes Sanctions Against Russia Proposed by the Late Lindsey Graham"
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/us-senate-passes-sanctions-against-russia/
#Russia #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
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@victorvonvortex@mastodon.social 2026-08-08 23:03
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social This is worrisome: The bill "could allow Trump to drop 100 percent tariffs on virtually any country he likes, for as long as he likes, and with pretty much bulletproof legal authority to do so; which means even the Supreme Court couldn’t bail out Congress (or the rest of us)..." https://www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-voting-to-give-trump-a-tariff Rand Paul and Ron Wyden offered an amendment that would have stripped some of the new tariff authority from the text, but the Senate rejected it... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/07/russia-sanctions-senate-passed-petroleum