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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 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.” But in a public hearing two weeks ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States looked to only exert control over Venezuela’s oil sector in the “short term.” Wright told POLITICO that despite President Donald Trump’s comments about the U.S. benefiting from Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, U.S. action there was not because of energy. “This was a geopolitical problem of a country that was a threat to all of its neighbors, a threat to the Western hemisphere, and a massive exporter of guns, of drugs, of criminals.It may be a nice coincidence, but it is coincidental that Venezuela’s main product and giant resource is oil,” said Wright. Jordan Roberts, communications director for Energy and Natural Resources Committee Republicans, said about the briefing: “Chairman Lee appreciates the Secretary’s willingness and looks forward to receiving additional information.” Lee, who is generally an ardent defender of President Donald Trump, expressed skepticism about the administration’s military moves in Venezuela in the initial hours of the January operation. But after receiving personal assurances from Rubio, Lee posted on social media that he was confident that the action “likely falls within the president’s inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution.”