Jared Kushner
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It's stable.
There's momentum.
Iran is basically broke.
We put such crippling sanctions on Iran that they went from about, I think it was 2.6 million barrels a day of oil they were selling to about 100,000 under Trump.
So their foreign currency reserves were basically depleted and they were broke.
Same with the Palestinians.
We stopped the funding to UNRWA, the UN agency, which is totally corrupt.
We've put $10 billion in there over time.
I did a poll in the Middle East, in Gaza to say, okay, we've invested $10 billion here as a country.
are we popular?
The US had a 7% approval rating.
USAID had a 70% approval rating, but it just felt like a waste of our taxpayer dollars.
And again, we wanted to make it conditions-based.
The Biden administration came in, number one, they started insulting Saudi and Russia.
Oil prices went up.
At the same time, what they did was they stopped domestic production of oil.
They disincentivized
A lot of oil and shale production with regulations.
They stopped pipelines.
Oil prices went up.