Trump to drive a stake through Nord Stream 2 project heart?

The United States is urging European allies and private companies to halt work that could help build the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline and is preparing wider sanctions on Russia's project in coming weeks, senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday.

The outgoing Trump administration is readying a fresh round of congressionally mandated sanctions “in the very near future” that it believes could deal a fatal blow to the Russia-to-Germany project led by state gas company Gazprom, three officials said.

"We’ve been getting body blow on body blow to this, and now we’re in the process of driving a stake through the project heart," Reuters cited one of the officials as saying.