该决定使该党的一些长期对俄鹰派与总统产生分歧。三名如今与特朗普总统关系破裂的坚定共和党人在总统周五放弃国会批准的对俄制裁后表达了震惊和不安，这加速了向莫斯科倾斜的步伐，而俄罗斯仍在持续其对乌克兰长达四年的战争。
The decision has left some of the party’s longtime Russia hawks at odds with the president. Three stalwart Republicans now on the outs with President Donald Trump expressed their shock and dismay after the president waived congressionally approved sanctions against Russia on Friday, accelerating a lurch toward Moscow as it continues its four-year-long war against Ukraine.
特朗普去年九月签署了林赛·O·格雷厄姆制裁俄罗斯法案，赋予白宫30天时间来实施或放弃对俄罗斯能源及与俄罗斯贸易国家的巨额新关税。事情在上周发生变化，当时特朗普本人宣布与俄罗斯达成协议，向“美国和全球市场”供应数十万吨柴油，暂时解除对俄罗斯柴油的制裁。
Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act in September, giving the White House 30 days to implement or waive massive new tariffs on Russian energy — and on the countries that trade with Russia. Things changed last week, when Trump himself announced a deal with Russia to supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel fuel “to the American and Global Marketplace,” temporarily lifting sanctions on Russian diesel.
北卡罗来纳州参议员汤姆·蒂利斯、得克萨斯州参议员约翰·科宁以及内布拉斯加州众议员唐·培根对这一举动表示担忧，这一举动发生在特朗普面临在中期选举前降低能源价格的日益增长的压力之际。
Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas, along with Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, expressed alarm over the move, which comes as Trump faces mounting pressure to bring down energy prices ahead of the midterm elections.
“培根在特朗普的行政命令于周五公开后不久在X上写道：‘总统是在延长战争，而不是结束它。’特朗普曾承诺在其第二个任期的最初几天内结束战争。
“The President is prolonging the war, not ending it,” Bacon wrote on X Friday, shortly after Trump’s executive order was made public. Trump had promised to end the war within the first days of his second administration.