'A big effing deal': Graham's final mission moves forward after his death
Of the many political crusades the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., undertook, few were as front of mind for him than crippling Russia’s war machine in its conflict with Ukraine.Yet during the last year-and-a-half of President Donald Trump’s second term, momentum behind a bone-crushing sanctions package against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin would start and stop, with hopes rising and falling for its proponents every few months.Earlier this year, Graham had similarly gotten a green light from the White House for a different iteration of the package.SENATE DEMS DRAW RARE LINE AGAINST MUST-PASS PENTAGON BILL"It's never going back on the shelf because President Trump believes he needs it," Graham told Fox News Digital at the time.
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Of the many political crusades the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., undertook, few were as front of mind for him than crippling Russia’s war machine in its conflict with Ukraine.Yet during the last year-and-a-half of President Donald Trump’s second term, momentum behind a bone-crushing sanctions package against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin would start and stop, with hopes rising and falling for its proponents every few months.Earlier this year, Graham had similarly gotten a green light from the White House for a different iteration of the package.SENATE DEMS DRAW RARE LINE AGAINST MUST-PASS PENTAGON BILL"It's never going back on the shelf because President Trump believes he needs it," Graham told Fox News Digital at the time. "I think he needs it."Hours before his death, he again got confirmation that the White House supported his and Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s, D-Conn., latest offering."Senator Graham and I were told, very authoritatively, literally just a couple of hours before his death, that the White House was OK with this," Blumenthal said.
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- Of the many political crusades the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., undertook, few were as front of mind for him than crippling Russia’s war machine in its conflict with Ukraine.Yet during the last year-and-a-half of President Donald Trump’s second term, momentum behind a bone-crushing sanctions package against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin would start and stop, with hopes rising and falling for its proponents every few months.Earlier this year, Graham had similarly gotten a green light from the White House for a different iteration of the package.SENATE DEMS DRAW RARE LINE AGAINST MUST-PASS PENTAGON BILL"It's never going back on the shelf because President Trump believes he needs it," Graham told Fox News Digital at the time.
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