‘The U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel at this time’
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez, not pictured, speak with the media after attending a meeting, marking the highest-level U.S. visit focused on energy policy to the OPEC nation in nearly three decades, as Washington conducts its first on-the-ground assessment of the oil industry it aims to help rebuild, in Caracas, Venezuela, February 11, 2026.
Leonardo Fernandez Viloria | Reuters
The White House on Tuesday said that a since-deleted social media post by Energy Secretary Chris Wright claiming that the U.S. Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz was wrong.
“The U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or vessel at this time,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a news conference, where she was asked about Wright’s post on X.
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