 In 2022, MBS stopped talking to Biden. After refusing to increase oil production to lower the price of oil in order to help the president in the 2022 election, MBS refused to take Biden's phone call. And the United Arab Emirates did the same. In 2023, June, Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, began an LGBT push on the Saudis. Blinken said this, I pressed the Saudis on LGBTQ issues in every conversation.