resistanceU.S. Senate Republicans want U.S. President to impose sanctions Joe Biden Even after the completion of the Baltic Sea pipeline, an armed attack was carried out on Beixi 2.Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Congress Chamber on Monday Corresponding draft amendments to the law The proposal becomes part of the National Defense Budget (NDAA) 2022 package. It stipulates that the president will be deprived of the right to issue exceptions to sanctions on the grounds of national security. According to the draft, relevant paragraphs in the sanctions law on Nord Stream 2 should be deleted.
The US House of Representatives has made corresponding amendments to the law in the September defense budget draft. Biden has a special permit (“Presidential Exemption”), Beixi 2 The Swiss-based AG and its German managing director have not been sanctioned by the United States. Republican Senator Jim Risch, the highest-ranking Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, on Monday accused the Biden administration of letting Russia go, thereby ignoring the “bipartisan will of Congress.” The senator accused Russian President Putin of abusing energy as a weapon.
Cross-party boycott of Nord Stream 2
Russia completed the controversial Baltic Sea Pipeline Beixi 2 in September. However, no natural gas has flowed from Russia to Germany through the pipeline. Ukraine is bypassed by pipelines. Both the Republicans in Congress and the Democrats in Biden strongly opposed North Stream 2. The Democratic Party currently controls both houses of Congress, but only has a weak majority.
In a year-long project dispute, the federal government and the Biden administration announced a breakthrough in July. They issued a joint statement promising to support Ukraine. In the past two years, the United States has conducted large-scale criticisms of North Brook. Biden subsequently admitted that the United States will no longer be able to block this pipeline.
