The magazine reports that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and a number of Biden administration officials have personally called some US congressmen and urged them to cancel the defense budget amendments that affect the project.
Thus, the administration tried to withdraw from the sanctions the German organizations that are involved in Nord Stream 2.
According to the newspaper, this "angered the Republicans in Congress."
In October, Politico announced that the Biden administration was not going to impose sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, as congressional has been pushing for.