onald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is being connected by the former president's critics to the decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut oil production just one month away from the United States' midterm elections.

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson suggested in a tweet that Kushner "call the Home Office in Riyadh."

In the spring, The New York Times reported that Kushner spearheaded a U.S. government-sponsored program called the Abraham Fund intended to raise $3 billion for Middle East-related projects. That followed previous reports that Kushner's private equity firm received a $2 billion check from Saudi Arabia—the same nation that, along with Russia, agreed Wednesday to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day to raise prices.

"Entire MAGA ecosystem now firmly aligned with the geopolitics of Saudi Arabia and Russia," tweeted Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based liberal think tank. "Their leader is an actual business partner with the Saudis and a political partner of Putin."

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"Did Jared visit the Saudi's at DJT's urging, seeking higher oil prices to harm the Dems in the midterms? Just wondering," tweeted Robert Reich, former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton.

Democratic representatives Tom Malinowski of New Jersey, Sean Casten of Illinois and Susan Wild of Pennsylvania have even introduced legislation asking for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.