October 15, 2022 1:57pm EDT
Republican calls for Pelosi to probe Biden admin's potentially 'illegal' request for Saudis to delay oil cut
The Biden administration said that they asked the cut to be delayed to the next OPEC meeting
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to launch hearings into the Biden administration's request that Saudi Arabia delay a cut in oil production until after the midterm elections.
Announcing a planned oil cut to production by two million barrels a day, which could send gas prices spiking in the weeks before the U.S. midterms in November, the Saudi government said that the U.S. had requested the cut be delayed a month.
"The government of the kingdom clarified through its continuous consultation with the US administration that all economic analysis indicates that postponing the OPEC+ decision by a month, according to what has been suggested, would have had negative economic consequences," read a Thursday statement from the Saudis, who lead the OPEC+ oil conglomerate.
The statement immediately led to concerns from Republican lawmakers that the Biden administration was thinking of the electoral consequences of such a move.
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