Trump Waives Most of the Russia Sanctions in the Lindsey Graham Act
Let's review the Lindesy O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act and Trump's waiver.
Source: Mish Talk
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DW NOTE
The Graham Act mandates sanctions on Russian energy, defense contractors, and sovereign debt. Trump just issued a blanket national security waiver exempting nearly all of them. Congress wrote the law precisely to prevent executive override — it passed 97-2 in the Senate — and the administration has now nullified it by decree. Either the sanctions were theater from the start, or U.S. policy toward Moscow has reversed and no one wants to say so.