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slash UK slash AI for people. Chevron makes headway in lobbying the White House to keep pumping oil in Venezuela.

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It's Thursday, March 20th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition

of Watts News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

We are exclusively reporting that President Trump is considering a plan to extend Chevron's

license to pump oil in Venezuela and make it harder for other countries

to get a foothold there. Trump expressed openness to reversing his recent decision to order

the company to wind down its Venezuela operation next month during a Wednesday meeting at the

White House with Chevron CEO Mike Worth and other oil industry executives,

according to people familiar with the discussion.

Journal correspondent Jenny Strasberg says that comes after months of counterarguments

from hardline Venezuela critics like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor

Mike Waltz.

What we see here is Chevron making some headway in its argument that

if the U.S. were to impose tariffs or other financial penalties on countries buying oil from Venezuela,

not the U.S., but China, et cetera, then that could fortify Chevron and allow that oil to continue flowing to the U.S.,

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