Trump signs sweeping sanctions bill targeting Russia's energy sector

In naming a sweeping sanctions law after the late Senator Lindsey Graham, the United States has placed the full weight of its economic leverage against the machinery of Russia's war — reaching not only into Moscow's financial institutions and shadow fleets, but into the trade relationships of China and India, which together absorb nearly nine-tenths of Russia's energy exports. Signed by President Trump on a Friday in September 2026, the legislation represents a significant escalation in the long, grinding effort to separate a nation's capacity for war from its capacity to sell. Whether the too