WashingtonTrump waived 500% tariffs on Russian energy before they began.
Congress passed the law by large margins to cut the revenue funding Russia’s war.
The law lets the US president skip measures against national interest, and Trump certified that to Congress with no expiry.
Republican Representative Don Bacon said Trump is “prolonging the war, not ending it.”
Trump or Rubio alone decides when the waiver ends, and midterm elections follow on 3 November.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 250+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- TASS
- BBC leans critical
- links the waiver to the Russian diesel deal and midterm energy prices, and cites a bipartisan letter from 20 lawmakers
- Hindustan Times leans critical
- quotes Blumenthal and Bacon: waiver 'sucking up to Putin' and 'prolonging the war', with Democrats' 'surrender' charge
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- ties the suspension to a diesel deal signed a week earlier and notes the order came two days before the sanctions deadline
- Українська правда
- quotes the order's waiver language and explains that suspended tariffs can be reinstated later at Trump's discretion
Sources: TASS, BBC, Hindustan Times, Al Jazeera Online, Українська правда