Lawmakers vow action to force Russian concessions in proposed Ukraine deal
House Republicans are adamant that the end of the war not be the “Munich Agreement all over again.”
Meghann Myers | November 26, 2025
U.S. lawmakers are preparing a bill to impose sanctions on Russia as part of a pushback against the Trump administration’s proposed agreement to end the fighting in Ukraine, two Republican congressmen told reporters on Wednesday.
They were “dumbfounded” and “sick to my stomach” upon reading a deal that would cede Ukrainian territory to Russia and force the Ukrainian military to shrink, said Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, and Don Bacon, R-Neb., of the House Armed Services Committee.
“That is a crossing of a Rubicon where Congress now fully and wholly needs to inject itself in this debate, and that's what we're going to do,” Fitzpatrick said.
They hope to weaken Russia’s negotiating power with Fitzpatrick’s sanctions bill, which mirrors a Senate version that has 85 bipartisan cosponsors. Bacon said he would be signing it Monday. If it garners 218 signatures, lawmakers will be forced to vote on it.
“Because that plan, that 28-point plan, was utterly ridiculous, should be nowhere in the conversation, nowhere,” he said. “That's Munich Agreement all over again. We are not going down that path.”
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