State Dept briefing gets Heated as Reporter asks if Biden admin Taking Credit for Trump Accomplishments
An Associated Press reporter took
State Department spokesman Ned Price to task Monday for suggesting that
President Joe Biden was responsible for a policy that had started under the
Trump administration.
Price, highlighting a report sent to Congress, said some 18 entities have engaged in "good faith efforts" to scale back their involvement in Nord Stream 2, a controversial $11 billion pipeline project designed to transmit
Russian natural gas to
Germany.
Kremlin critics have said the project would double the amount of natural gas imported from Russia. If completed, it would leave
Europe more dependent on Russian energy than ever before. The poisoning of Russian dissident
Alexei Navalny has revitalized calls for the project to be abandoned.
At Monday’s press conference, Price seemed to suggest that the Biden administration’s efforts. That the aforementioned entities have wound down their activities in the pipeline project, Price said, demonstrated that Biden and Congress’s strategy "has been working to good effect."
Associated Press reporter Matt Lee piped in, telling Price that all of this work had begun under the Trump administration.
State Dept briefing gets heated as reporter asks if Biden admin taking credit for Trump accomplishments