Lindsey Graham's final mission to punish Putin clears Senate after yearlong fight

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Katie Britt, R-Ala., discuss the bipartisan Russia sanctions bill, named for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. They say the bill aims to cut off funding for Russia's war in Ukraine by targeting top oil and gas purchasers and authorizing tariffs. It’s taken well over a year of stops, starts, promises and derailments, but the Senate has at last advanced a bone-crushing package of sanctions against Russia, capping off one of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s biggest fights. The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act sailed through the Senate on another colossal bipartisan vote and is now headed to the House. It has the backing of President Donald Trump, too. It comes after personal lobbying from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week, who, hours after Graham’s memorial service in Washington, D.C., pleaded