Republican senators are urging President Trump to give them the green light to vote on a Russia sanctions package in the wake of Moscow’s incursion into Poland’s air space and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s seeming disinterest in ending the war with Ukraine.

Senate Republicans have pushed for months for Trump to back the chamber’s bipartisan package that would punish nations that import Russian oil, gas and uranium, only to see it languish without his support.

That mood is changing.

“I think it’s time for the sanctions bill to come to the floor,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), a member of GOP leadership, told The Hill. “I think the president's got to make the final call on that, so I respect that, but I’m ready to vote for that.”

“It’s just a compounding situation,” she continued. “Every time it looks like Putin’s at the table and then he turns around and just pounds Kyiv or something like that. I think we’re getting closer on sanctions.”

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) rolled out the package in mid-July, but it has remained dormant as Trump gave negotiations with Putin a full go, headlined by their meeting last month in Alaska.

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