{
  "id": "diesel-senators-rescind",
  "edition_date": "2026-10-14",
  "section": "Policy",
  "kicker": "Diesel",
  "headline": "Twelve Senators Tell Trump to Rescind the Russia Diesel License",
  "deck": "Twelve U.S. senators on Tuesday told the President to withdraw from the Russia diesel agreement and rescind General License No. 135.",
  "epistemic": "fact",
  "byline": {
    "desk": "Policy Desk",
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  },
  "timestamp": "12:20 UTC",
  "revision": 1,
  "next_update_utc": "15:00",
  "topics": [
    "oil",
    "russia",
    "sanctions",
    "ukraine"
  ],
  "body": [
    "A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump to withdraw from his diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and rescind a move to waive sanctions on Russia's energy sector, CBS News reported. [E5] The letter told the President to \"Withdraw from this agreement, rescind General License No. 135, and execute the authorities provided under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026.\" [E3] The senators' press release names twelve signatories, each with a party label. [E7]",
    "Granting Moscow the ability to sell Russian diesel freely in global markets \"damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine, who continue to defend themselves from Putin’s murderous, illegal war,\" the senators wrote. [E1] \"This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies,\" they wrote. [E2] Axios reported the letter admonished President Trump's deal to lift sanctions on Russia to increase diesel supplies. [E4]",
    "Treasury announced Friday that it would temporarily waive sanctions on Russia's energy sector to \"allow the supply of Russian diesel to the global market,\" CBS News reported, a waiver this paper recorded on 13 October. [E6] Tuesday's Senate letter is the change since. No White House reply has been published."
  ],
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      "label": "Signatories named",
      "value": "12"
    },
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      "label": "General License",
      "value": "135"
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      "fragment": "Granting Moscow the ability to sell Russian diesel freely in global markets damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine, who continue to defend themselves from Putin’s murderous, illegal war.",
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        "raw_excerpt": "Granting Moscow the ability to sell Russian diesel freely in global markets damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine, who continue to defend themselves from Putin’s murderous, illegal war.",
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      "source": "blumenthal.senate.gov",
      "fragment": "This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies; it should be rescinded,” the senators wrote.",
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        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-13T19:17:00Z",
        "raw_excerpt": "This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies; it should be rescinded,” the senators wrote.",
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      }
    },
    {
      "source": "blumenthal.senate.gov",
      "fragment": "Withdraw from this agreement, rescind General License No. 135, and execute the authorities provided under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026.",
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        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-14T11:54:31.905Z",
        "raw_excerpt": "Withdraw from this agreement, rescind General License No. 135, and execute the authorities provided under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026.",
        "provenance_note": "Research sensor verified this sentence on the source page (quote_verified true) at 2026-10-14T11:54:31.905Z."
      }
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    {
      "source": "axios.com",
      "fragment": "President Trump's deal to lift sanctions on Russia to increase diesel supplies \"is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine\" and \"a gift to our adversary,\" a bipartisan coalition of senators wrote in a letter admonishing the agreement.",
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        "source_url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/10/13/trump-russian-diesel-deal-betrayal-bipartisan-letter",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-13T19:17:00Z",
        "raw_excerpt": "President Trump's deal to lift sanctions on Russia to increase diesel supplies \"is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine\" and \"a gift to our adversary,\" a bipartisan coalition of senators wrote in a letter admonishing the agreement.",
        "provenance_note": "Verbatim text from the source page: quote-verify.mjs re-read the page and found this sentence or passage in it."
      }
    },
    {
      "source": "cbsnews.com",
      "fragment": "Washington - A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday urged President Trump to withdraw from his diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and rescind a move to waive sanctions on Russia's energy sector, saying it \"damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine.\"",
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        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-13T19:17:00Z",
        "raw_excerpt": "Washington - A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday urged President Trump to withdraw from his diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and rescind a move to waive sanctions on Russia's energy sector, saying it \"damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine.\"",
        "provenance_note": "Verbatim text from the source page: quote-verify.mjs re-read the page and found this sentence or passage in it."
      }
    },
    {
      "source": "CBS News",
      "fragment": "The Treasury Department also announced Friday that it would temporarily waive sanctions on Russia's energy sector to “allow the supply of Russian diesel to the global market.”",
      "as_of": "2026-10-09",
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        "source_url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-russia-release-diesel-oil-iran-skyrocketing-costs/",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-10T16:46:00Z",
        "raw_excerpt": "The Treasury Department also announced Friday that it would temporarily waive sanctions on Russia's energy sector to “allow the supply of Russian diesel to the global market.”",
        "provenance_note": "Verbatim text from the source page: quote-verify.mjs re-read the page and found this sentence or passage in it. Copied from this paper's 13 October forecast russian-diesel-waiver to restate the Friday waiver."
      }
    },
    {
      "source": "blumenthal.senate.gov",
      "fragment": "The press release names twelve senators, each with a party label, as joining the letter.",
      "as_of": "2026-10-13",
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        "source_id": "E7",
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        "source_url": "https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/bipartisan-senators-call-on-trump-to-rescind-russian-diesel-deal-and-implement-sanctions-authorized-by-congress-last-month-on-enablers-of-putins-war-against-ukraine",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-14T11:54:31.905Z",
        "provenance_note": "Research sensor reported the page lists all 12 signatories with party labels in one 448-character sentence that exceeded the quote limit and does not itself use the words twelve or six and six. Faithful paraphrase of that listing; not a captured excerpt."
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  "previous_coverage": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "slug": "russian-diesel-waiver"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-11",
      "slug": "s-10ac7290"
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      "place": "Washington",
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      "note": "Twelve senators asked the President to rescind General License No. 135. No White House reply is on the record."
    }
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  "facts_checked_utc": "13:01"
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