Joe Biden’s nominees for CIA director and State Department deputy director were never in question. Still, Senator Ted Cruz vowed to slow their confirmations until he heard what the administration planned to do to keep the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from completion. That is until yesterday, when the State Secretary hinted that the Biden administration will not sit idly by and watch the pipeline connect Russian natural gas to Germany.
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