President Joe Biden's conservative critics — from Fox News to Capitol Hill Republicans — have slammed the administration for exempting Russian oil from the raft of financial sanctions aimed at the Kremlin. 

They’ve argued two main things:

1. With Russia’s economy so reliant on the energy sector, the U.S. should target that nation’s energy exports in order to be effective.

2. Biden should simultaneously green-light domestic energy production to offset any oil shortages — a policy the GOP has been pushing for years and that is, in many ways, antithetical to the administration’s climate goals. 

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