{"id":1683459,"date":"2022-10-11T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683459"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:22:54","slug":"biden-reevaluating-relationship-with-saudi-arabia-after-opec-cuts-production-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reevaluating-relationship-with-saudi-arabia-after-opec-cuts-production-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden \u2018Reevaluating\u2019 Relationship With Saudi Arabia After OPEC+ Cuts Production: White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-reevaluating-relationship-with-saudi-arabia-after-opec-cuts-production-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683459&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> is reevaluating the United States\u2019 relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-saudi-arabia\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> in the wake of the OPEC+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/opec-agrees-to-sharp-oil-output-cut-in-blow-to-biden_4776611.html\">cutting production<\/a>, the White House said on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the president has been very clear that this is a relationship that we need to continue to reevaluate that we need to be willing to revisit, and certainly in light of the OPEC decision, I think that\u2019s where he is,\u201d John Kirby, a White House spokesman, said on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>OPEC+ stands for the\u00a0Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the group\u2019s allies, including Russia. Saudi Arabia is part of the group.<\/p>\n<p>OPEC+ decided to cut oil production by two million barrels per day during a meeting in Vienna. Biden administration officials reportedly tried convincing the group not to enact cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby was responding to remarks from Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez said Monday that the production cut amounted to helping Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war against Ukraine \u201cthrough\u201d OPEC+, adding, \u201cThe United States must immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including any arms sales and security cooperation beyond what is absolutely necessary to defend U.S. personnel and interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats have also called for drastically changing the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, which was a trusted partner during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate majority whip, said on Twitter that the ruling Saudi family \u201chas never been a trustworthy ally of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for our foreign policy to imagine a world without their alliance,\u201d Durbin added.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/democrats-float-an-end-to-us-troop-protection-for-gulf-nations-after-opec-production-cut_4780214.html\">have floated<\/a> removing American troops from both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates due to the production cut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll find that the president,\u00a0obviously disappointed by the OPEC decision, is going to be\u00a0willing to work with Congress\u201d on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is reevaluating the United States\u2019 relationship with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the OPEC+ cutting production, the White House said on Oct. 11. \u201cI think the president has been very clear that this is a relationship that we need to continue to reevaluate that we need to be willing to revisit, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}