Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy ripped a top Biden official during a hearing on Monday over the administration’s decision to roll back sanctions against Venezuela’s authoritarian regime. In a video posted to his X account, Kennedy pressed Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo to explain the administration’s reason for lifting sanctions related to oil and gas operations in Venezuela. The order lifting the sanctions, known as General License No. 44, was implemented in October, Reuters reported at the time. It lifted sanctions imposed in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump that restricted the i…
