The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman’s action raises the prospect that Congress could act to punish the Saudis for helping prop up high oil prices.
As committee chairman, Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, vowed he “will not green-light any cooperation with Riyadh until the Kingdom reassesses its position with respect to the war in Ukraine. Enough is enough.”
Blinken says the US has “made clear our views to OPEC members,” following news of a production cut of 2M barrels of oil a day. Schumer declared then that lawmakers were looking at legislative options to deal with what he called Saudi Arabia’s “appalling and deeply cynical action.” John Kirby, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said Tuesday on CNN that Biden is willing to work with Congress to determine “what the right relationship with Saudi Arabia needs to be going forward.”
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