US collected $13B from Venezuelan oil sales – true

Financial Times, “The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?” July 22, 2026 · CNBC, “Trump says U.S. has sold more than $13 billion of Venezuela oil since Maduro’s capture,” July 27, 2026

Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are going

Late last week, the Financial Times estimated that the U.S. has put roughly $13 billion of Venezuela’s oil revenues into a reported U.S. Treasury account ever since the Trump administration’s likely illegal coup operation in Venezuela in January.

According to Global Witness analysis of Rystad Energy data, the Venezuelan government’s take – revenues owed to the state from production – was some $13 billion in 2025.

So fact-checking Trump relies on piecing together scattered estimates of revenues and expenditures. A July 22 Financial Times analysis estimated that the U.S. has collected about $13 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue.

President Donald Trump told reporters that the U.S. has collected more than $13 billion from the sale of Venezuelan oil.

The U.S. has collected US$13 billion in revenues from Venezuelan oil sales but has said almost nothing about the money. Read more.

The Trump administration has collected more than $13bn in revenues from Venezuelan oil sales this year, according to FT calculations, but has said almost nothing about what has happened to the money.

The U.S. government has collected more than $13 billion from sales of Venezuelan crude oil this year after seizing control of the country's export mechanisms, while offering minimal public accounting of where the funds have gone.