Energy Secretary Chris Wright is slated to brief senators on the administration’s Venezuela involvement in a closed-door meeting this week.
The meeting comes at the request of Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee (R-Utah) and will focus on the Energy Department’s involvement in Venezuela, said a spokesperson for the committee.
The panel will hear from Wright on Tuesday as the secretary prepares to visit the South American nation, according to an interview with the POLITICO Energy podcast.
The briefing follows weeks of uncertainty about the United States’ control over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. Following the Trump administration’s invasion of Venezuela and removal of its president last month, Wright said that DOE planned to sell the country’s oil “indefinitely.”
