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Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Roguminovalin. It's Thursday. OPEC plus announces a

2 million barrel cut in oil production will tell you how that's playing in D.C. It's your Politico

Playbook Daily Briefing. For months, AIDS to President Joe Biden have been back-channeling

to keep OPEC from cutting

oil exports, and in turn, raising oil and gas prices around the world.

So much for all that.

On Wednesday, OPEC Plus announced that it'll cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day,

starting next month.

A move that David Singer and Ben Hubbard from the near Times right sharply undercuts

President Biden's effort to avoid an increase in gas prices ahead of the midterm elections,

while setting back his push to constrain the oil revenue Russia is using to pay for its war in Ukraine.

They added, it also exposes the failure of his fist-bump diplomacy over the summer with

Muhammad bin Salman,

the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. The news was met with outrage in Washington as a growing

course of democratic lawmakers on both sides of the capital cede about the seemingly one-way

U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia. Representative Tom Malinowski told Playbook on Wednesday night.

The Saudis will do what

we let them get away with doing. We have to stop acting like the suckers in this relationship

and reestablish that the services we provide to these countries require them to take our

legitimate interests and concerns into account. And if they're not willing to do that, then they

should find another friend. Toward that end, Malinowski says he'll introduce a bill to mandate the removal of U.S. troops

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