Bar sales from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China

Barrasso introduced legislation to prevent the United States from selling oil from its emergency petroleum stockpile to China. He said the reserve should serve the United States, not its enemies.

Context: The source describes the legislation as introduced; it does not establish whether it became law.

In their own words

I have introduced legislation to ensure we never sell any of our emergency stockpile to China ever again.

The source

Barrasso: China Benefits from Biden’s War on American Energy ↗

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