President Joe Biden will visit Saudi Arabia next month, the White House announced on Tuesday.
The announcement was criticized by Democrats in Congress, including Senate Majority Member Dick Durbin (D-IL).
In an interview with FNC “Special Report” host Bret Bayer on Tuesday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) voiced her doubts about Biden’s trip, but urged Biden to be “challenging” and “stable” in Saudi Arabia and other countries. she evaluated them as “oil producing countries” on the trip.
The partial transcript is as follows:
JACKSON LEE: I hope some of the focus is on foreign countries—oil-producing countries, not foreign countries—sorry, their inability or resilience to some degree of genuine response to this gas inflation. , because the prices of food and other commodities that Americans need are determined by transportation costs, fuel costs.
And here we are. This would have happened if another president had sat down. We survived a terrible epidemic. The president was a genius at putting together the American Plan of Salvation, which saved people from utter despair and embarrassment, if when I say shame you throw yourself out into the streets without your kids eating. .
Here we are in a situation where inflation is unacceptable. We understand this. We are working hard to deal with this along with the supply chain. All this has been interrupted by the pandemic. If he goes to Saudi Arabia as president, it’s not for fun and games. Some of the most heinous acts of Saudi involvement, from Yemen to the killing of journalists, cannot be sanctioned.
But I think it’s going to be a real eye-to-eye battle where you have to play on the world stage. And when there is such an increase in fuel prices, you have to be as sensitive to some of the prices that the Saudis have in the Middle East as the US would like them to be.
I think the President will hopefully be demanding, I hope he will persevere and accept that these prices will come down from oil producing countries.
If they fall, this will help in the middle of the battle.
You know the cost of war is increasing, Bret, but it will pay off. And we still have a lot of work to do. I think the gas tax should be changed. And this has been done in other states as well. It helped other states. And we will break this lockdown in these supply chains so we can move products to our shelves, which will help reduce costs.
Source: Breitbart
