Sen. Blumenthal called for President Biden to stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia following OPEC's decision to cut oil production.
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Prince Mohammed bin Salman spurned Biden when the OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting nations decided last week to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day. The move is expected to raise gas prices at the pump, potentially delivering a damaging blow to Biden before the midterm elections, while helping member Russia navigate through a partial European ban on Russian oil.
The crown prince's rebuff has Democratic allies questioning whether the meeting was worth it as some call for the Biden administration to cut U.S. cooperation with Saudi Arabia including arms sales to the Saudis. The White House said Biden is "reevaluating" the U.S.-Saudi relationship that goes back 70 years.
Biden told reporters last week that the administration is "looking at alternatives" following the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production. The Biden administration announced it will deliver an additional 10 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in November, adding to up to 180 million barrels the president ordered in March.
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Don’t threaten do it .
Yeah! $25 a gallon is exactly what we need!!!
@Jake Lloyd Maybe Biden shouldn’t have shut down domestic production
@dingus Maybe?
I didn’t vote for the duds in power.
Quid Pro Joe doing publicly what Trump was impeached for in an email.
He’s also on camera bragging about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Hunter’s ties to Burisma fired in exchange for federal aid money.
If we only had some of or own oil
We are already number one in the world for oil production
@Ruth Harris so explain to me ,why you are begging for oil
L after L for Biden and his incompetent cronies.
Every day is a new level of Democrapery.
It’s what you get when you decide oil and profit are more important than your own country and people..
Didn’t we have a President who made us Energy Independent?
🤣🤣🤣
Another front man for Brandon. Useless, as typical.
At least don’t give them “assault rifles” and “30 round clips”
Are they giving them away for free again
That’s ok. They got a great deal on a TON of our stuf from the Taliban when our idiot left it all there.
Let em make their own arms, they have enough money. They are not our allies
Quid- pro -quo. Impeachment??????
And reverse it , that means weakness and not gonna happen
THE CONSERVATIVE BLACK MOVEMENT IS ON THE RISE!!!
(SO IS THE CONSERVATIVE LATINO MOVEMENT AS WELL)…
Quieen Margo was replaced at 12years old in area of Central Asia, her daughter Hurrem sultan- her Mihrimah was replaced at 12- she became Aisha bibi, the founder of belly dance, she lost Maternity chain and first changed her baby on 5th month of pregnancy. She was the cursed White Mother after Cleopatra, Angels couldn’t forgive her chain… Jacqueline Kennedy then Monica Bellucci or Patriciya Redjani and Maya… it seems to be like this…
India should rally behind USA on this matter and bring the dynamic power shift to consumers not oil middle easterner cartels. India needs cheap oil too.
😆 Lol 😮Really unprovoked Hehehe really
So American lives and American economy is more important than Saudi lives and Saudi economy?