Saudi Arabia said Thursday it will boost oil production to offset fuel costs that have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The coalition of oil-producing nations known as OPEC+ has agreed to Saudi plans to pump an additional 650,000 barrels per day in July and August. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports President Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia later this month, where he will ask Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to pump more oil. That’s despite Biden’s pledge during a 2019 debate to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” for the state-sponsored killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Andrea Mitchell: “President Trump has not punished senior Saudi leaders. Would you?”

Joe Biden: “Yes. And I said it at the time. Khashoggi was, in fact, murdered and dismembered, and, I believe, on the order of the crown prince. And I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them. We were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.”

That was then-candidate Joe Biden speaking at a presidential debate in 2019. Last year, President Biden approved a $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia, and earlier this year, Biden signed off on the sale of $5 billion of weapons to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.