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华盛顿专电——总统特朗普因其在俄罗斯制裁即将生效前两天突然宣布豁免相关制裁的决定，正遭遇两党人士的强烈反对。
国会通过了这项两党合作法案——该法案由已故南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆牵头推动，他在法案通过前离世——特朗普总统于9月18日将其签署生效。鉴于作为特朗普密友的格雷厄姆将推动该法案作为其离任前的最后行动之一，此次豁免决定也对格雷厄姆的政治遗产造成打击。
但特朗普对乌克兰的不满与日俱增，他于周一批评乌克兰，而与此同时俄罗斯仍在持续打击乌克兰境内的民用目标。“坦率地说，俄罗斯在乌克兰问题上表现尚可，他们没怎么动手，”总统周一在白宫南草坪对记者说道。他补充道：“我们给了乌克兰很多援助，他们却什么都没给我们。”
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基于周一表示，俄罗斯最近一次打击行动针对乌克兰的能源和基础设施，以及一家诊所、学校、地铁站和居民楼。
这些经济制裁措施旨在惩罚俄罗斯高层人士和俄罗斯石油天然气的最大买家，美国希望借此结束俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京发动的持续四年的乌克兰战争。但该法案赋予特朗普权限，若他向国会证明暂停制裁“符合美国国家利益”，即可豁免部分制裁条款。
特朗普政府面临着中期选举前降低燃油价格的巨大压力。
“我在此豁免《格雷厄姆法案》中规定的此类制裁、限制和关税的实施，”特朗普在周五发布的一项行政命令中说道。“我已向国会提交证明，认定此时发布此类豁免符合美国国家利益。”
该命令未解释特朗普的决定，而就在一周前，特朗普刚刚放松了对俄罗斯能源行业的制裁，并宣布与普京达成协议，向美国市场进口柴油。
“这极其不负责任，”北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯谈及总统的最新举措时表示，他称“本届政府向非法入侵乌克兰、每日屠杀无辜平民的俄罗斯独裁者屈服，这令人难以接受”。
“如果总统真的想降低能源价格，他可以通过解决伊朗问题来实现，而不是为弗拉基米尔·普京提供便利，”蒂利斯补充道。
美国计划从俄罗斯购买的30万吨柴油约合220万桶——仅相当于美国单日柴油消耗量410万桶的一半多一点。而且由于乌克兰已摧毁了俄罗斯大量炼油产能，目前尚不清楚俄罗斯何时能够交付这批燃料。专家表示，与俄罗斯达成的这笔交易无法抵消伊朗局势动荡导致的石油供应中断影响。
得克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁对此表示赞同，他在谈及豁免制裁一事时说道：“林赛会感到震惊的。”
“在乌克兰问题上帮助普京是鲁莽之举，”科宁说道。“他的野心不会止于乌克兰，我们的北约盟国将是下一个目标。普京狂热地致力于恢复俄罗斯的昔日荣光，他称苏联解体是‘本世纪最大的地缘政治灾难’，并声称俄罗斯在解体过程中‘被掠夺’了。”
北达科他州共和党参议员凯文·克拉默在《与玛格丽特·布伦南面对全国》节目中表示，他与同僚们立场一致，认为“向霸凌者屈服通常意味着他们未来会提出更多要求”。
“这就是将与恶棍进行谈判采取商业谈判方式的问题所在，弗拉基米尔·普京就是这样的恶棍，”他说道。
多名众议院共和党人也对特朗普的这一举措表示谴责。
“总统是在延长战争，而非结束战争，”内布拉斯加州共和党众议员唐·培根周五写道。周六，培根补充称特朗普的“执政议程已经失败”。
“总统有自己的议程：补充拨款、和解法案、舞会之类的，”培根写道。“我们很多人不会为这些项目提供资金，因为我们清楚他在扶持一个独裁者的入侵行动，还将盟友弃之不顾。”
前众议院外交事务委员会主席、得克萨斯州共和党众议员迈克尔·麦考尔敦促特朗普重新考虑。
“我们一次次看到普京对美国让步的回应：对美国充满蔑视，对无辜乌克兰平民施加更多暴力，”他周六说道。
众议院外交事务委员会最高民主党人、纽约州众议员格雷戈里·米克斯表示，此次制裁豁免并不令人意外。米克斯曾反对该法案的通过，称其会扩大总统的关税权限。
“他多年来一直有权制裁俄罗斯，他所缺乏的是决心，”米克斯周六在一份声明中说道。
“通过为俄罗斯经济提供续命支持，特朗普与魔鬼的交易变得越来越肮脏，”代表纽约州的参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默在另一份声明中说道。
特朗普豁免俄罗斯制裁的决定也招致了泽连斯基的 immediate批评和担忧。本月早些时候，特朗普曾表示乌克兰应该“换一位领导人”。
泽连斯基上周对记者表示，他认为特朗普违背《林赛·格雷厄姆法案》初衷的行为将会“不幸地”持续下去。
“这很不幸，因为我们所有人都非常敬重林赛，”泽连斯基说道。“他将一生奉献给了美国。我们与他有着极好的关系。就在悲剧发生前不久，林赛还在乌克兰。他一直非常坚定地支持我们，推动向乌克兰提供尽可能多的援助。说实话，没有他我们很难应对。我要感谢所有支持他的法案的民主党人和共和党人。那是一场重大胜利：真正的两党支持。而现在，要推翻这一切、彻底否决这项法案的决定，在我看来是错误的。这显然只会对俄罗斯有利。”
周日，特朗普试图为制裁豁免做出解释，称他不想将俄罗斯推离谈判桌。
“我对俄罗斯的决定非常简单，”在公众批评声浪日益高涨之际，他在Truth Social平台上写道。“我正在就俄罗斯和乌克兰之间的战争进行和平谈判，不想做任何愚蠢到将俄罗斯推离谈判桌的事情。”
但特朗普长期以来一直吹嘘自己与普京关系友好，这与他所有前任的做法都不同。特朗普与普京以及中国国家主席习近平的新照片陈列在白宫棕榈厅，记者们进出白宫时就能看到这些照片，以此了解总统乘坐海军陆战队一号起降的情况。
特朗普曾抨击乌克兰袭击俄罗斯的柴油炼油厂。他呼吁乌克兰和俄罗斯双方结束战争，尽管是俄罗斯发动了这场战争，且只要俄罗斯撤出所有占领部队、停止袭击就能结束战争。
特朗普面临着降低油价的政治压力，距离中期选举还有两周时间，届时共和党预计将遭遇困境。生活成本和油价仍是选民最关心的问题，伊朗局势动荡推高了汽油和柴油价格，也推高了整体通胀。特朗普曾表示，中期选举结束后战争将结束，尽管目前尚不清楚具体方式，且届时油价将大幅下跌。
与此同时，乌克兰官员最近报告称，太空探索技术公司埃隆·马斯克旗下的商业卫星网络星链以及基于同一网络构建的军事版本星盾遭遇了使用困难。
泽连斯基周末表示，星盾网络速度受限意味着乌克兰无法使用拦截器击落俄罗斯的沙赫德无人机，这引发了谁是此次降速幕后黑手的质疑。特朗普周五否认自己限制了乌克兰使用星链的权限，并补充称他也认为马斯克不应为此负责。
马斯克上周三表示，他无权决定星盾的使用方式，他在X平台上写道：“星盾系统归美国政府所有并由其控制。任何限速或使用限制均由美国军方决定，最终由总统说了算。”
国务卿马可·卢比奥周六也对记者表示，本届政府“与此事毫无关联”。
周一，特朗普表示他不知道是谁下令中断服务，“但我想查清楚。”
这些解释并未让包括部分共和党人在内的多名议员满意。
上周，一个由两党9名参议员组成的团体，包括北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯、缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯、得克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁和阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基，要求国防部监察长展开调查。他们要求监察长调查“国防部或其承包商的行动或决策是否导致了这些危险情况”。
“任何对这些能力的限制，尤其是在未提前通知的情况下，都引发了严重质疑：国防部的合同监督是否到位，是否有责任确保基本服务的连续性，”参议员们在信中写道。
克拉默和俄亥俄州共和党众议员迈克·特纳也在周日的《与玛格丽特·布伦南面对全国》节目中加入了要求国会调查此事的呼声。
“必须展开调查；我们需要找出这些人是谁，因为这些情况事关生死，”特纳说道。
蒂利斯和康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔周一与泽连斯基进行了视频通话，称泽连斯基证实“关键星链服务仍处于降级状态”，阻碍了乌克兰拦截俄罗斯无人机的能力。参议员们表示，泽连斯基还报告称，美国有关俄罗斯弹道导弹发射预警的情报共享出现中断。
两人表示，泽连斯基还就关键防空拦截器交付延迟以及特朗普豁免对俄罗斯制裁的决定提出了“严重担忧”。
“试图安抚弗拉基米尔·普京这样的杀人恶棍只会延长战争，造成更多伤亡，”蒂利斯和布卢门撒尔说道。
妮科尔·基利安为本报道撰稿。
Trump faces bipartisan backlash over waiving Russia sanctions
2026-10-19T17:00:00-0400 / CBS News
Washington — President Trump is getting bipartisan blowback over his surprise decision to waive new sanctions on Russia two days before they were to go into effect.
Congress approved the bipartisan legislation — championed by the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who died before it was passed — and it was signed into law by Mr. Trump on Sept. 18. It also comes as a blow to Graham’s legacy, given that the senator, a close friend of Mr. Trump, pushed the legislation as one of his final acts.
But Mr. Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Ukraine, and on Monday criticized Ukraine, even as Russia continues to strike civilian sites in Ukraine. “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine, they haven’t been doing much,” the president told reporters on the White House South Lawn Monday. He added, “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine, they’ve given us nothing.”
In its most recent strikes, Russia recently hit Ukraine energy and infrastructure, as well as a medical clinic, school, metro station and residential buildings, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday.
The economic restrictions were intended to penalize top Russian figures and the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas as the U.S. seeks to end Russian President Vladimir Putin’s four-year war in Ukraine. But the legislation gives Mr. Trump the authority to waive parts of the law if he certifies to Congress that halting the sanctions is “in the national interests of the United States.”
The Trump administration is facing intense pressure to act to bring down fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections.
“I am hereby waiving the application of such sanctions, restrictions, and duties provided for in the Graham Act,” Mr. Trump said in an executive order issued Friday. “I have submitted to the Congress a certification that the issuance of such a waiver at this time is in the national interests of the United States.”
The order did not explain Mr. Trump’s decision, which came a week after the president eased sanctions on Russia’s energy sector and announced a deal with Putin to import diesel to the U.S. market.
“Beyond irresponsible,” GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said of the president’s latest move, calling it “unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians every single day.”
“If the president wants to actually bring down energy prices, he can do it by solving the Iran problem, not by doing a solid for Vladimir Putin,” Tillis added.
The 300,000 tons of diesel the U.S. is buying from Russia is about 2.2 million barrels — and that’s just over half the 4.1 million barrels of diesel the U.S. uses in a single day. And since Ukraine has damaged much of Russia’s refining capacity, it’s unclear when Russia would be able to deliver the fuel. Experts say the deal with Russia will not offset the disruptions to oil supplies resulting from the Iran war.
GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas agrees and said of the sanction waiver, “Lindsey would be appalled.”
“Helping Putin in Ukraine is reckless,” Cornyn said. “He would not stop with Ukraine and our NATO allies would be next. Putin is fanatically committed to restoring Russia’s glory days, calling the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” and claiming Russia was “robbed” in the breakup.”
Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that he shared his colleagues’ position, arguing that “capitulating to a bully generally means they’re going to make more demands going forward.”
“That’s the problem with taking sort of a business negotiation approach to negotiating with a thug, which is what Vladimir Putin is,” he said.
Several House Republicans also railed against the president’s move.
“The president is prolonging the war, not ending it,” GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska wrote Friday. On Saturday, Bacon added that Mr. Trump’s “agenda is dead.”
“The President has an agenda: supplemental, reconciliation, Ballroom, etc.,” Bacon wrote. “Many of us won’t fund these things knowing he is propping up a dictator’s invasion and throwing an ally under the bus.”
GOP Rep. Michael McCaul, former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged Mr. Trump to reconsider.
“Time and again, we have seen how Putin responds to American concessions: with contempt for the United States and increased violence against innocent Ukrainians,” he said Saturday.
Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the waiver should come as no surprise. Meeks had argued against the bill’s passage, saying it would expand the presidential tariff authorities.
“He has had the power to sanction Russia for years. What he lacks is the will,” Meeks said in a statement Saturday.
“By giving the Russian economy life support, Trump’s deal with the devil keeps getting dirtier,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who represents New York, said in a separate statement.
The president’s decision to waive Russia sanctions was also met with immediate criticism and concern from Zelenskyy. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump said Ukraine should “get a new leader.”
Zelenskyy told reporters last week he thinks the president’s actions that contradict the intent of the Lindsey Graham Act would continue, “unfortunately.”
“It’s unfortunate because we all had great respect for Lindsey,” Zelenskyy said. “He devoted his life to America. We had an excellent relationship with him. And shortly before the tragedy, Lindsey was in Ukraine. He always supported us very strongly and pushed for as much assistance to Ukraine as possible. It’s difficult without him, I’ll be honest. I want to thank both Democrats and Republicans who supported his bill. That was a major victory: this truly bipartisan support. And now, the decision to undo all of this, to block all of it, seems wrong to me. And it definitely helps only the Russians.”
On Sunday, Mr. Trump sought to explain the sanctions waiver by saying he didn’t want to drive Russia away from the negotiating table.
“My decision on Russia is a very simple one,” he wrote on Truth Social in the face of rising public criticism. “I am in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and don’t want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table.”
But Mr. Trump has long touted a friendlier relationship with Putin, a departure from all of his predecessors. New photos of Mr. Trump with both Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping adorn the White House’s Palm Room, where reporters exit and enter the White House to see the president’s take off and land from Marine One.
Mr. Trump has blasted Ukraine for striking diesel refineries in Russia. He has called on both Ukraine and Russia to end the war, although Russia started it, and could end the war by withdrawing all occupying troops and stopping its attacks.
Mr. Trump is facing political pressure to lower gas prices, two weeks out from midterm elections in which Republicans are expected to struggle. The cost of living and gas prices remain top issues for voters, with the Iran war driving up gas and diesel prices and pushing overall inflation higher, too. Mr. Trump has said the war will end once the midterm elections are over, although it’s unclear how, and that gas prices will drop precipitously then.
At the same time, Ukrainian officials have recently been reporting difficulties with Starlink, the commercial satellite network owned by SpaceX’s Elon Musk, and Starshield, the military version built on the same network.
Zelenskyy said over the weekend that the throttling of Starshield network speeds has meant that Ukraine has been unable to use its interceptors to shoot down Russian Shahed drones, has prompted questions about who was behind the slowdown. Mr. Trump on Friday denied he had limited Ukraine’s access to Starlink, and added he didn’t believe Musk was responsible either.
Musk said last Wednesday he isn’t responsible for deciding how Starshield is used, writing on X: “Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also told reporters Saturday that the administration had “nothing to do with that.”
On Monday, Mr. Trump said he didn’t know who ordered the interruption, “but I’d like to find out.”
The explanations haven’t satisfied a number of lawmakers, including some Republicans.
Last week, a bipartisan group of nine senators, including Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, John Cornyn of Texas and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, asked the Defense Department inspector general to investigate. They asked the IG to look into “whether actions or decisions by the Department of Defense or its contractors contributed to these dangerous circumstances.”
“Any restrictions on these capabilities, particularly without advance notification, raise serious questions about the Department of Defense’s contractual oversight and its responsibility to ensure continuity of essential services,” the senators wrote in the letter.
Cramer and GOP Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio also joined growing calls for a congressional investigation into the move on “Face the Nation” Sunday.
“There needs to be an investigation; we need to find out who these people are because lives are at risk and lives are lost over these things,” Turner said.
Tillis and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut hosted a video call with Zelenskyy Monday, and said he confirmed that “critical Starlink services remain degraded,” impeding Ukraine’s ability to intercept Russian drones. The senators said Zelenskyy also reported disruptions to U.S. intelligence sharing regarding early warning of Russian ballistic missile launches.
The pair said Zelenskyy also raised “serious concerns” about critical air defense interceptor delays and Mr. Trump’s decision to waive sanctions against Russia.
“Trying to appease a murderous thug like Vladimir Putin will only prolong this war and bring greater casualties,” Tillis and Blumenthal said.
Nikole Killion contributed to this report.
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