President Joe Biden refused to answer on Friday why he waited until the final days of his administration — after he and Vice President Kamala Harris both failed to defeat President-elect Donald Trump during last year’s election — to enact new sanctions against Russia that he himself acknowledged will raise the price of gasoline.
CNN reported that the new sanctions targeting Russia’s oil industry were some of the “harshest sanctions to date meant to cut off funding for Moscow’s war against Ukraine.”
A reporter asked Biden at a press conference if he was concerned about prices going up and why he waited until today to impose the sanctions and not years ago.
“The sanctions are imposed today because they will have profound effect on the growth of the Russian economy and make it more difficult for Putin to conduct his wars,” Biden said in avoiding answering why he waited to…
