
Manchin, Cruz introduce bipartisan bill barring Biden admin from selling US oil reserves to China
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday that would ban future sales of U.S. emergency oil reserves to China.
"The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a vital piece of our nation’s infrastructure that bolsters our energy and national security," Manchin, who serves as the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital. Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"While the reserve has been a policy Band-Aid for rising gas prices and the global unrest caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the reserve is, above-all, meant to help the United States and our allies through difficult times, not to help China power its economy," he continued.