President Donald Trump says in a post that the 'topping out' process will ‌begin shortly.

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United States President Donald Trump has said on social media that oil from a recently struck deal with Venezuela will be ⁠used to replenish the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an oil stockpile that the country keeps for emergencies and that has been drawn down sharply in ⁠recent years to respond to global supply disruptions and high fuel prices.

The US president wrote on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns, that the reserve had been made “virtually” empty, while blaming former US President Joe Biden.