EXCLUSIVE: The Republican Study Committee (RSC) Tuesday unveiled new legislation to block the United States from purchasing oil products from Iran, arguing the Biden administration needs to focus on boosting domestic energy supplies rather than funding terrorist regimes.
The GOP members of Congress want to prevent any circumstance in which the Biden administration tries to replace the Russian oil with new imports from Iran amid rising gas prices. They say Biden should lift his executive orders that canceled the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada and froze new oil and gas leases on federal lands."When Joe Biden crushed the American energy industry on day one of his presidency, he left Americans dependent on our foreign adversaries for oil," said Rep.
The United States isn't currently buying oil from Iran. The two largest exporters of crude oil and petroleum products to the U.S. are Canada and Mexico. Tuesday amid growing bipartisan pressure that the U.S. should not be sending any money to Russia that helps finance its brutal war against Ukraine.
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