The Senate vote came after months of negotiations over how aggressively to target Moscow's war economy. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, said Russia's energy revenues were allowing the Kremlin to sustain the over four-year war. Representatives Gregory Meeks, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Don Beyer, a senior Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee, said the Senate vote had not resolved their concerns. They argued that Trump already has broad authority to sanction Russia but that the bill would give him sweeping new tariff powers. Kyiv Welcomes Senate VoteVladyslav Vlasiuk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's commissioner for sanctions policy, welcomed the Senate vote as a sign of continued bipartisan support for the country.