A bipartisan group of six senators on Sunday called for Donald Trump’s administration to “immediately reverse course” on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices.
Trump shocked lawmakers when he announced on social media Friday that he struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call. He said Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to the American and global market, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons “immediately thereafter.” Russia will deliver an additional 3 million tons “within a short period of time” after that, he wrote.
Four Republican senators and two Democratic senators signed onto the statement released Sunday in protesting the deal. They said the administration failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute.
It’s time to bring up the Epstein files again.
Governance by platitudes is as useless as me coming up with a creative metaphor.
Trump (Krasnov) can’t unsuck Putin’s dick.
I love Russian cream! 🫲🍊🫱
That’s an emoji I can’t unsee. I’m in shock and vomiting at the same time…
Use it wisely my friend.
Alternative headline:
94 senators in favor of or indifferent towards heavily sponsoring the war crimes of a geopolitical adversary.
It’s not as snappy but more relevant to the state of things
“These 6 senators don’t want you to have cheap gas!”
—MAGA
There is no deal for diesel imports from Russia. A lifting of sanctions on Russian energy is relatively inconsequential because Russia has enough customers for all of its energy exports despite the sanctions. Russia does have a current diesel export supply problem. It will still export to friends of Russia over the US, although this does represent global pricing relief. No US refinery will take the political hit of importing Russian diesel/oil. Ukrainian nazi rulership did express openness to an energy ceasefire declared by Trump. Some global pricing relief after mid terms could occur if they obey. Iran can transship diesel through Russia if price is high enough.
Still, purpose of sanctions relief on Russia is to counteract military strike plans on Iran, and Iran’s retaliatory capability. Zionazi Russophobe vermin senator posturing does this BS fully knowing US is not going to import any Russia diesel.
Seems like a better idea to try undo the damage you caused yourself in the first place
Here is my thing. How in the world is JD Vance not quietly building support for the 25th? Like that might be the only thing that could save them in the election.
But even if they still plan on cheating, Trump is literally nothing more than a liability at this point.
I mean, if we knew he was doing it, it wouldn’t be so quiet. Too much of his cabinet (which would need to vote for it) are unwavering Trump sycophants, but maybe there are enough not-Pete-Hegseths that he could pull it off.
But for Vance’s own sake, he may be best off waiting until after midterms/inauguration in case he needs to cut any deals with the next Congress.
Probably because Vance has to be one of the most unpopular people ever. Seriously, they’re hanging on because of the cult like devotion to trump. Nix him and go to Vance? Their support drops from high 20s to sub 10s
Wouldn’t doing that with less than half a term left mean that he could then only be elected for one term? So to maximize his own (and Thiel’s) potential power, he’d want to do it right after January 20th. IANAL and obviously IADNACL.
Syphilitic old shitstain betrayed the U.S., E.U and Ukraine in a single phone call.
Wow! Six!
There are (half) dozens of us!
There are (half) dozen
sof us!FTFY
I sure hope it was strongly worded.
And bipartisan! Surely this will send a message
Literally it was a message they sent. Next I suppose they’re going to do something about it.
Look I get it, but for the moment let’s be glad these six are doing something… a lot more than the absolute nothing - or bootlicking - the others are doing.
I’m skeptical of any republican that has had the opportunity to keep Trump in check, but has not. This feels like an attempt to make them look better before rhe midterms.
You’re probably not wrong
let’s be glad these six are doing something
No. This is LITERALLY the least they can do apart from nothing. And 94 senators aren’t even doing THAT much.
That’s as worthy of celebration as Mitch McConnell completing a sentence without having a stroke or Hakeem Jeffries neglecting to call a common sense progressive candidate with more popular policy positions than himself “dangerous” or “extreme left”.
Yeah it’s this bad, I know. It’s not that I disagree (although it’s probably dangerous to even do this under Trump), and I’m definitely not celebrating. Still, I believe complaining should now start with the other 94.
beat me to it
Susan Collins is very concerned. She might write a letter.
Did she furrow her brow yet? Clutch any pearls?
“He learned his lesson”…
300k tonnes of diesel isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things.
Even if they had it loaded it would be 3 weeks away.
In 2025, distillate (or diesel) fuel consumption (excluding biodiesel and renewable diesel) by the U.S. transportation sector was about 2.94 million barrels per day, or about 123 million gallons per day.
123,000,000 gallons per day. Diesel weighs 7 pounds per gallon so 861,000,000 pounds or 430,500 tons per day.
This first shipment will not cover 1 days fuel cost. But what it will do is give a big pile of money to Putin.
Wait that means…
Thats about $500m of diesel purchase.
Essentially that’s a transfer of $500m cash to Putin. Putin is collecting dues.
Just bought the midterms with taxpayer money.
But it’s enough for them to blame the Dems when things aren’t magically fixed after they win in the Midterms. The idiots eat that shit up because they have absolutely no idea how a national economy works. Republican economic policies are consistently bad for everyone that’s not in the 1% and yet they vote for them all the time because they’re told told policies are good for them, regardless of the reality they deal with daily.
I feel like that’s the worst part of this: he’s undermined what had been a reasonably unified international campaign for what, like 2 days of diesel?
Not even a single day’s worth. It’s less than the transportation sector uses in a day.
Tuesday
Six!? Why, that’s almost seven senators! That will surely get his attention.
I am pretty sure trump will listen /s
