A bipartisan group of senators said Friday they reached an agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration to move forward a new version of legislation to sanction buyers of Russian oil, potentially advancing a long-stalled effort to ramp up pressure on Moscow.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters in Kyiv, where he’s visiting, that the lawmakers have been working closely with the administration on a version of the legislation that would be “acceptable” to the White House and that was “written in a way they could support.”
Neither he nor his colleagues in the effort — Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Roger…
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