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How have US presidents tapped strategic petroleum reserves during war?

By Reuters
March 11, 2026 9:47 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. would contribute “a little bit” to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) plan to release a record 400 million barrels of oil in various countries’ reserves to try to control prices that have jumped due to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Trump did not say how much oil the U.S. would contribute, saying only “right now, we’ll reduce it a little bit, and that brings the prices down” in an interview with local TV in Ohio.

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The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) currently holds 415.4 million barrels, most of which is high sulfur, or sour crude, that U.S. refineries are geared to process. The crude is held underground in hollowed-out salt caverns on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Capacity is about 714 million barrels.

Here is how U.S. presidents have tapped the SPR before in times of war:

RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE

In March 2022, the month after Russia invaded Ukraine, Trump’s predecessor former President Joe Biden ordered the release of 180 million barrels over six months – the largest sale ever from the emergency stash. Biden, and later Trump, slowly bought some oil to replenish the reserve, but little has been returned as Congress needs to provide more money to do so.

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ATTACK ON SAUDI ARABIA

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia in 2019, prompting the shutdown of more than half the crude output in the world’s largest exporter. Trump, then in his first term as president, said his administration stood ready to tap the SPR if needed. Ultimately that did not happen, as oil output recovered quickly from Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq plant and Khurais field.

LIBYA CIVIL WAR

In June 2011, former President Barack Obama ordered the release of 30 million barrels of oil from the reserve to offset disruptions to global markets from civil war in oil producer Libya. That sale was coordinated with the Paris-based IEA, resulting in an additional 30-million-barrel release from other member countries.

OPERATION DESERT STORM

In 1990-1991, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, former President George H.W. Bush sold about 21 million barrels in two phases. In October 1990, the U.S. ordered a 3.9-million-barrel test sale. In January 1991, after U.S. and allied warplanes began attacks against Baghdad and other military targets in OPEC-member Iraq as part of Operation Desert Storm, Bush ordered the sale of 34 million barrels, of which 17.3 million barrels were sold.

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特朗普称赢得了伊朗战争 但不想提前撤军

发布时间：2026年3月12日 07:02 | 来源：联合早报

美国总统特朗普周三在肯塔基州希伯伦举行的一场竞选式集会上宣称，已经赢得了伊朗战争，还说“战争在第一小时内就结束了”。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普周三宣称，“我们赢得了”伊朗战争，但美国将继续战斗，直至完成任务。

特朗普星期三（3月11日）在肯塔基州希伯伦举行的一场竞选式集会上说：“一般上我们都不愿意过早宣布胜利。但我们赢了。战争在第一小时内就结束了。”

他还说，美国击沉了58艘伊朗海军舰艇。

路透社报道指，特朗普在伊朗问题上的态度摇摆不定，一方面赞扬美军大幅削弱了伊朗的军事力量，另一方面又反对迅速结束这场冲突。

他告诉集会者：“我们不想提前撤军……我们必须完成任务。”

特朗普说，美国“实际上已经摧毁了伊朗”，但“我们不想每两年就回去一次”，似暗示美国目前仍将继续这场战争。

马克龙：伊朗未完全丧失军力

法国总统马克龙则说，美国和以色列的空袭削弱了伊朗的军事能力，但并未使其“完全丧失”。

他周三在与七国集团（G7）领导人视频通话后说：“伊朗的弹道导弹能力已经遭受了相当大的破坏，但它仍在继续攻击该地区的多个国家，因此其军事能力并未完全丧失。”

但马克龙说，他会让特朗普自身说明对这场战争的“最终目标以及行动节奏”。

安理会要伊朗停止袭击波斯湾国家 | 联合早报

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联合国安理会周三通过决议，要求伊朗停止对波斯湾国家的袭击，并谴责伊朗干扰霍尔木兹海峡国际航行的行动。 （路透社）

联合国安理会周三通过一项决议，呼吁伊朗停止对波斯湾国家的袭击。该决议并未提及美国或以色列对伊朗的空袭，这引发中国和俄罗斯的不满以及伊朗的强烈谴责。

该决议星期三（3月11日）以13票赞成、两票弃权获得通过。决议“要求伊朗立即停止对巴林、科威特、阿曼、卡塔尔、沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋和约旦的一切袭击”。

决议还“谴责伊朗旨在关闭、阻碍或以其他方式干扰霍尔木兹海峡国际航行的任何行动或威胁”。

伊朗多次袭击波斯湾国家，以报复美国和以色列的联合军事行动。伊朗还向途经霍尔木兹海峡的商船开火。霍尔木兹海峡是全球燃料贸易的关键航道，伊朗此举意在打击全球经济。

提出这项由135个国家共同发起的决议的巴林常驻联合国代表阿尔罗瓦伊说，该决议的通过反映了波斯湾地区在全球经济中的关键作用。“正因如此，确保该地区的安全不仅仅是一个地区性问题，而是关乎全球经济稳定和能源安全的共同国际责任。”

延伸阅读

伊朗不寻求停火 以色列称战争不设时限 分析：美伊冲突带来巨大政治代价 特朗普在谋求退场

中俄不满 伊朗谴责

拥有否决权的中国和俄罗斯均投了弃权票，他们对该决议未承认美国和以色列对伊朗的侵袭感到不满。

伊朗常驻联合国代表伊拉瓦尼说，该决议的通过代表了美国和以色列“公然滥用安理会授权，以谋求其政治目的”。

伊拉瓦尼指出，这项决议对伊朗明显不公，强调伊朗才是“这次侵略行动”的受害者。

美国常驻联合国代表沃尔兹则说：“伊朗企图制造混乱、挟持邻国、动摇地区决心的战略显然适得其反，今天的投票结果就证明了这一点。”

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March 11, 2026 / 4:14 PM EDT / CBS News

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Invitation Homes agreed to issue the refunds as part of a settlement with the FTC, which sued the Dallas-based company in 2024. Regulators alleged in the suit that Invitation Homes deceived consumers about leasing costs, charged undisclosed junk fees, failed to inspect homes before residents moved in and withheld tenants’ security deposits after they moved out.

Invitation Homes did not immediately respond to a request for comment. As of December 2025, the publicly traded company owned or managed more than 110,000 properties across the U.S., according to a financial disclosure.

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The FTC said it will mail payments to 444,131 consumers who paid Invitation Homes $45 or more in fees or charges between January 2021 and September 2024.

The agency advised recipients to cash their checks within 90 days of receipt. Delivery dates will vary depending on where a person lives, an FTC spokesperson said.

Anyone with questions about refunds can contact Rust Consulting toll-free at 800-804-6915 or by email at info@InvitationHomesRefund.com.

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The FTC spokesperson told CBS News that refund amounts will be based on a number of factors, including the number of eligible recipients and how much they paid for covered fees and charges. Based on the settlement amount, eligible consumers will receive an average payment of $106.

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That figure, from a closed-door briefing for senators on Tuesday, ​did not include the entire cost of the war, but was provided to ​lawmakers as they have clamored for more information about the conflict.

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The $11.3 billion figure was first reported ‌on ⁠Wednesday by the New York Times.

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While senators met behind closed doors just steps from the chamber, party leaders accused each other of refusing to negotiate over reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the key sticking point in the standoff.

“You can cry about it. You can whine about it. You lost an election over it,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said. “The White House has dealt with you in good faith. You want to prolong this until you get another incident, while your activists are on the street confronting ICE agents in sanctuary jurisdictions, hoping they get some viral moment.”

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The Trump administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow it to terminate the protected legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants living in the U.S.

It’s the latest effort by the administration to unwind Biden-era protections of hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the U.S. as part of the president’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the high court Wednesday to immediately intervene and overturn a lower court order that blocked the administration’s effort to immediately revoke the temporary protected status designation for some 350,000 Haitian migrants living in the U.S.

A majority of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also blocked the Trump administration’s bid to end the program, citing the “substantial” and “well-documented harms” the migrants would likely face as a result, clearing the way for the administration to appeal the case to the high court.

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In his filing Wednesday, Sauer urged the Supreme Court to review more broadly the issue of whether the Trump administration can revoke TPS protections for other migrants living in the U.S.

“Unless the court resolves the merits of these challenges — issues that have now been ventilated in courts nationwide — this unsustainable cycle will repeat again and again, spawning more competing rulings and competing views of what to make of this court’s interim orders,” Sauer said Wednesday. “This court should break that cycle.”

The TPS program in question allows individuals from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a disaster, armed conflict or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”

Haitians were first granted TPS status in 2010 after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left some 1.5 million in the country homeless.

The protections were extended several times, including under the Biden administration in 2021 after the July assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s last democratically elected president.

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem speaks from a podium as assembled DHS staff watch.(Al Drago/Getty Images)

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The Trump administration’s Supreme Court filing marks the second time this year the administration has asked the high court to immediately intervene and allow it to strip TPS protections for certain migrants.

Lawyers for the Justice Department also asked the Supreme Court last month to allow it to revoke TPS designations for Syrian migrants in the U.S., though the high court has yet to rule on that request.

The appeal comes just weeks after U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Department of Homeland Security from immediately revoking the TPS designations for Haitians in the U.S.

FEDERAL JUDGES IN NEW YORK AND TEXAS BLOCK TRUMP DEPORTATIONS AFTER SCOTUS RULING

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Reyes described the administration’s effort to abruptly wind down the designation as “arbitrary and capricious” and accused DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of failing to consider the “overwhelming evidence of present danger” in Haiti, which she noted had prompted the Biden administration to extend TPS protections for Haitians in the first place.

“The government cannot name a single concrete harm from maintaining the status quo,” Reyes said. “And so instead it argues that the court’s decision is ‘an improper intrusion by a federal court into the workings of a coordinate branch of the government.’”

The appeal comes as the Trump administration has sought to wind down most TPS designations, arguing the programs have been extended for too long under Democratic presidents.

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Trump officials have also taken aim at lower courts that have sought to block or pause their efforts to wind down TPS protections, accusing the lower court judges of exceeding their authority and unlawfully intruding on the executive branch’s authority on immigration policy.

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After Trump called for GOP Rep. Massie’s defeat, conservative groups spending over $5 million to try to oust him in May primary

Updated on: March 11, 2026 / 5:17 PM EDT / CBS News

Outside groups are already spending more than $5 million in hopes of unseating GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a May primary after President Trump called for his defeat.

So far, federal campaign finance records show that anti-Massie forces have dominated much of the outside spending picture in the Kentucky contest where the congressman is facing a pro-Trump challenge from Ed Gallrein, whose campaign website describes him as a farmer who has also served in the U.S. Navy. Spending disclosures show that a Super PAC has directed more than $2.8 million towards the contest since late February, while the group MAGA KY has spent around $2.7 million this cycle.

Since he arrived in Congress back in 2012, the Libertarian-minded Massie has taken lonely political stands on Capitol Hill, including voting against spending on the Iron Dome missile defense system for Israel, which has put him at odds with members of his own party. He was also one of the only House Republicans who voted against Mr. Trump’s massive spending and policy bill, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. His opposition towards high-profile GOP issues put him on a collision course with Mr. Trump last year, one that appeared to only accelerate after he helped push through a hard-fought transparency bill that forced the Justice Department to release an enormous amount of records from the Jeffrey Epstein case.

But Massie has benefited from some outside support, too, in his re-election run to the tune of around $1.18 million. Yet that figure is overshadowed by the cash attempting to help his opponent. Massie’s northern Kentucky district is reliably Republican and not expected to be competitive in the general election. This year isn’t the first time Massie has faced a primary challenge, but it is expected to be his toughest race to date, given the national dynamics and the attention of the president.

Massie is at risk of becoming another House Republican to fall in a primary. Earlier this month in Texas, incumbent Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw was defeated in a contest that saw State Rep. Steve Toth primary the congressman from the right.

Crenshaw failed to secure Mr. Trump’s endorsement, though the president did not publicly side against the incumbent. Around a week before his win, Toth was endorsed by GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in a warning signal of the way the race was going for Crenshaw. More than $3.8 million in outside spending went into that primary, a mark already far eclipsed in Kentucky.

The president has crusaded against Massie over the last year, a push that only grew as he prepared to head Wednesday to Hebron, Kentucky, which is in Massie’s district. Writing on Truth Social before his trip, Mr. Trump doubled down on his support of Gallrein, and later in a separate post predicted that “Massie will go down as the WORST Republican Congressman in the long and fabled history of the United States Congress.”

Massie responded Wednesday morning, saying in a post on X, “I predict “President” DJT will begrudgingly sign my beautiful Epstein Files Transparency Act, causing beleaguered princes and ambassadors and prime ministers and CEOs around the world to be arrested or resign in total shame. Oh wait, that already happened.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/massie-on-fbi-doj-leaders-being-criminally-liable-if-trump-doesnt-release-all-epstein-files/

How the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute over AI safeguards escalated

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March 11, 2026 8:35 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago

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March 11 (Reuters) – A standoff erupted between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic in January after the AI lab refused to loosen safety guardrails on its systems, prompting the Pentagon to label it a ‘supply-chain risk,’ and putting the company’s government contracts in jeopardy.

The Claude maker’s executives warned that the designation, ​which they view as retaliation for opposing the use of their technology in autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, could slash their ‌2026 revenue by billions of dollars.

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Legal experts suggest the government’s case may be undermined by a mismatch between the law invoked and Anthropic’s conduct, internal contradictions in the Pentagon’s behavior and evidence that its decision may have been driven by animus rather than security.

Here is a timeline of the ongoing conflict:

January 29 The Pentagon and Anthropic clash over eliminating safeguards that could allow the ​government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance
February 11 The Pentagon pushes AI companies, including Anthropic, to make their ​AI tools available in classified settings without many of the standard restrictions that the companies apply to other users
February ⁠14 The Pentagon considers ending its ties with Anthropic over the AI lab’s insistence on keeping some limits on how the U.S. military uses its models
February 23 U.S. ​Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for talks on the military use of Claude
February 24 The Pentagon asks Anthropic to get on board, ​or risk consequences, including being labeled a supply-chain risk
February 25 The Pentagon asks defense contractors, including Boeing (BA.N) and Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), to assess their reliance on Anthropic
February 26 Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell asks Anthropic to allow the Pentagon to use its technology for all lawful purposes, giving the company until 5:01 p.m. ET on February 27 to decide
February 26 Anthropic says it will not accede to ​the Pentagon’s request to eliminate safeguards from its AI systems
February 27 U.S. President Donald Trump directs every federal agency to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology
February ​27 Hegseth directs the U.S. DoD to designate Anthropic a “supply-chain risk to national security”
February 27 Anthropic says it will challenge in court the Pentagon’s decision
February 27 OpenAI announces deal to deploy technology in the ‌DoD’s classified ⁠network
February 28 OpenAI says its latest agreement with the Pentagon includes three red lines: its technology cannot be used for mass domestic surveillance, to direct autonomous weapons systems or for any high-stakes automated decisions
March 2 The U.S. Departments of State, Treasury and Health and Human Services move to cease using Anthropic’s Claude
March 3 Lockheed Martin pledges to follow the DoD’s direction, signaling a likely exodus of defense contractors removing Anthropic’s tools from their supply chains to protect their federal contracts, legal experts say
March 4 U.S. ​Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells CNBC that the ​agency will remove Anthropic from ⁠its government systems within days
March 4 Big tech industry group pushes to de-escalate the clash, saying a supply-chain risk designation creates uncertainty for companies and could threaten the military’s access to the best products and services
March 5 The U.S. DoD formally designates Anthropic ​as a supply-chain risk
March 6 Amazon says it is helping customers transition DoD workloads to alternative models on its ​cloud, while customers and ⁠partners could continue using Claude for all non‑Pentagon workloads
March 6 The U.S. General Services Administration draws up strict rules for civilian artificial-intelligence contracts and terminates Anthropic’s OneGov deal, which made Claude available to the federal government
March 9 Anthropic sues to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, saying the designation is unlawful and violates ⁠its free ​speech and due process rights
March 9 Anthropic executives say the U.S. government’s blacklisting of the AI firm ​could cut its 2026 revenue by multiple billions of dollars and cause reputational harm
March 10 Microsoft (MSFT.O)files a brief backing Anthropic’s lawsuit, saying the DoD designation directly affects it and that a temporary restraining ​order is needed to avoid costly supplier disruptions and rushed rebuilding of products that depend on Anthropic

Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur

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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman says war with Iran has been “effective”

March 11, 2026 / 7:24 PM EDT / CBS News

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said Wednesday he believes the U.S.-Israel war with Iran has been “effective” and is moving toward an “appropriate outcome.”

“I think, overall, what’s accomplished is remarkable,” Fetterman told CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett in an interview Wednesday.

Pressed on whether the war was going “well,” Fetterman responded, “Yes, absolutely. I mean, I’m not sure it’s the right word I would choose for war, but I do think it’s very effective. And then I do think it’s moving towards the kinds of appropriate outcome.”

Fetterman argued that the conflict has shown Iran’s military capabilities to be weak, saying it’s “undeniable that Iran really never had the kind of capabilities to respond.”

“Overall, they have been unable to inflict any significant damage on American assets or in Israel,” Fetterman said, adding that Iran has been forced “to resort” to launching strikes on Gulf nations and disrupting the regional oil trade.

Iran has launched missiles and drones at Israel and at several U.S.-allied Arab states, including American bases in those countries — though the Trump administration says the volume of incoming strikes has dropped as Iranian missile launchers are bombed.

Seven U.S. service members have been killed and around 140 have been wounded since the war began, according to the Pentagon. In one attack on a U.S. facility in Kuwait, six Americans were killed and dozens suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, CBS News has previously reported.

Ship traffic through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which normally accounts for the passage of about 20% of global oil, has been crippled by the war, sending oil prices spiking.

Fetterman told Garrett he’s the “only Democrat in the Senate” that supports the war, later adding he was “aware of how punishing it is as a Democrat to agree with him [President Trump] on anything.”

On March 4, a Senate resolution that would have blocked Mr. Trump from continuing to use military force against Iran failed in a 53-47 vote, with Fetterman the only Democrat to cross the aisle and vote against it.

Last summer, Fetterman also joined his Republican colleagues to vote against a measure that would have blocked Mr. Trump from using military force against Iran, the only Democrat to do so.

On Feb. 28, hours after the U.S. and Israel launched their attack, Fetterman took to social media to express his support for the war effort, writing that Mr. Trump was “willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region. God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.”

The senator said Wednesday that it is “very clear that” acquiring nuclear weapons is Iran’s “ambition.”

He also alleged that attempts by previous administrations to negotiate with Iran on its nuclear program failed, making the war “necessary.”

“Multiple presidents, through their administrations, have tried this, negotiation, treaties, all other kinds of techniques to work through our other allies in the region and cajole them, no incentives,” Fetterman said.

In 2018, Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an Iran nuclear deal that had been negotiated in 2015 by his predecessor, then-President Barack Obama.

At the time, Mr. Trump claimed Iran was “on the cusp” of acquiring nuclear weapons. Since the war began earlier this month, the White House and Israeli officials have reiterated their belief that Iran was developing nuclear weapons, though neither the U.S. nor Israel has provided evidence to back up their claims.

In a March 2025 report, the U.S. intelligence community determined that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. While Iran has long said its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes, it enriches uranium to near weapons-grade levels.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/full-interview-john-fetterman-support-iran-war-being-at-odds-with-democrats-more/