Saudi crown prince says kingdom intends to invest billions in US during call with Trump

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Saudia Arabia's state run news agency reported that the country's crown prince intended to invest hundreds of billions into the US economy during US President Donald Trump's term in office.

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00:00Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince said that the Kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the

00:08United States over the next four years, and potentially beyond that.

00:13The remarks from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came after a phone call with recently

00:18inaugurated US President Donald Trump, and after Trump mused about returning to Saudi

00:23Arabia as his first foreign trip back in office.

00:27There was no immediate response from the White House regarding the call.

00:32It also wasn't clear whether Trump's call with the Crown Prince was his first with a

00:36foreign leader since returning to the Oval Office.

00:40The billion-dollar pledge, which dwarfs the gross domestic product of many nations, comes

00:46as the Kingdom faces budgetary pressures of its own.

00:49Global oil prices remain depressed years after the height of the coronavirus pandemic, affecting

00:56the Kingdom's revenues.

00:58In recent years, the US has increasingly pulled away from relying on Saudi oil exports, which

01:04was once the bedrock of their relationship for decades.

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