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yesterday I authorized the release of 1 million barrels per day for the next six

months from our strategic petroleum reserve.

Acknowledged this by far is the largest release of our national reserves in our history.

It is a wartime bridge is the way I look at it. in our

oil-time bridge is the way I look at it to increase our oil supply as we work with our oil

U.S. oil producers to ramp up their production

to get us through this period. I've coordinated this release

with partners and allies around the world. This morning over 30 countries

from across the world convened in an extraordinary meeting and agreed to the release of

tens of millions of additional barrels of oil onto the market. Hundreds of hours of meetings with key allies keeping them together is paying off.

Nations are coming together to deny Putin the ability to weaponize his energy resources

against American families, not only American families, but families in Europe and around the world.

I've also made it a priority to get America's fiscal house in order.

Under my predecessor, a federal budget deficit went up every single year, every year.

As I committed when I was running us and I got here, we're going to turn that around.

In fact, last year in 2021, we cut the federal deficit by more

than 350 billion dollars. And this year in 2022, we're on track to cut the deficit by more than 1.3 trillion dollars.

1.3 trillion.

That would be the largest one-year reduction in a deficit in U.S. history.

And it's particularly important now as we work to reduce pressures on inflation.

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