'Too cute by half': Senators brush off Trump's suggestions for honoring Graha

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(Politico) The late Sen. Lindsey Graham was known as a champion of American military power, strong global alliances, conservative jurisprudence and more.

Cryptocurrency regulation? Not so much.

So when President Donald Trump suggested in a Truth Social post Monday that the Senate should pass a long-brewing crypto bill in "honor of Senator Lindsey Graham," it struck a false note to many lawmakers. It also underscored how quickly many in Washington are moving after the Republican senator's death Saturday to claim his mantle for their own purposes.

Many of Graham's surviving colleagues instead rallied around a proposal they believe would better honor the four-term South Carolina legend: a bipartisan sanctions bill targeting Russia that Graham had been pushing — and had won White House support for — in the days before he died.

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