Saudi officials will hold a phone call to discuss the kingdom’s record high oil output with two Republican senators that have become the ringleaders in conservative efforts to pressure Riyadh into ending the price war, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Senators Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, will speak with the kingdom’s representatives two days after Saudi Arabia holds a telemeeting with its fellow OPEC members and Russia in a bid to end the price war.

Why it matters: Cramer and Sullivan have assembled a coalition of formerly pro-Saudi Republicans that had served as the embattled kingdom’s last line of defense in an increasingly hostile Congress to pressure Riyadh. Most of Saudi Arabia’s new Republican critics hail from oil-rich states severely impacted by the price war, which has resulted in industry-wide layoffs throughout the country exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cramer has vowed not to oppose any anti-Saudi legislation until the price war ends and has joined Sullivan in introducing a bill that would pull US troops and missile defenses meant to deter Iran out of the kingdom and relocate them elsewhere in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Senate Armed Services Chairman James Inhofe, R-Okla., has called on President Donald Trump to slap tariffs on Saudi and Russian oil.