The U.S. is set to create a new $1 billion fund for energy projects in Europe and Eurasia to free countries like Ukraine from Russian energy dependence.
Workers prepare a metal pipeline aboard the Solitaire ship to be installed in the Finnish Gulf, 125 miles west of St. Petersburg, on Sept. 20, 2010.
"Trump has made us a literal laughingstock in Europe. They get together with the cameras running, and they laugh at him, and they laugh at us. Of course Congress is going to try to do whatever we can to change that," he added. Sen. Chris Murphy speaks to journalists with joint a press conference after a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, outside the Presidential Office in Kiev, Ukraine, Sept. 5, 2019.
But Murphy still expressed concern that the president -- who has pushed for the U.S. to be softer on Russia than even his own administration’s actions and who has scorn for the kind of green technology promoted by the bill -- will stand in the way.
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