U.S. Businesses Complain Saudi Arabia Is Slow to Pay - WSJ
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The Saudi government has delayed payments worth billions of dollars to Western firms in a bid to contain its government-budget deficit amid lower oil prices and record spending announced in December, said Saudi officials who weren’t authorized to comment publicly and the people familiar with the matter.
“It is a strategy,” one Saudi official said about delaying payments to the private sector. “The government knows they can get away with it and would not want to have an alarming budget-deficit figure.”