‘Today I’m announcing the United States is targeting the main artery of Russia’s economy,” President Biden said at the White House on Tuesday. “We’re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy.”
The president had been reluctant to impose such a ban since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly two weeks ago, but in recent days Congress made it abundantly clear that it would act if the Biden administration would not. Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reported on Tuesday that Biden personally called Democratic leaders in Congress and urged them to pull back on legislation to ban Russian oil imports and revoke Russia’s most-favored-nation status. The White House “did not want to appear that they had been boxed in by Congress on this issue,” Heinrich wrote.
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