BIDEN OIL

During the first year of the Biden administration, Saudi foreign agents disclosed more than $25 million in payments for foreign influence operations and lobbying targeting the United States. That exceeds any prior year other than the unprecedented sum of about $39 million it spent in 2018, the bulk of which came as foreign agents worked to rehabilitate Saudi Arabia’s image in the weeks after Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Turkey on Oct. 2, 2018. Saudi interests have spent over $142 million on lobbying and influence operations in the U.S. since 2016, and foreign agents have already reported millions in 2022 payments.https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/10/saudi-arabia-ramped-up-foreign-influence-operations-in-the-us-during-bidens-presidency/