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For months, aides to President Joe Biden have been backchanneling to keep OPEC from cutting oil exports and, in turn, raising oil and gas prices around the world.\nSo much for all that.\nOn Wednesday, OPEC+ announced that it will cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day starting next month \u2014 a move that \u201csharply undercuts President Biden\u2019s effort to avoid an increase in gas prices ahead of the midterm elections, while setting back his push to constrain the oil revenue Russia is using to pay for its war in Ukraine,\u201d write NYT\u2019s David Sanger and Ben Hubbard.\nAnd two days after setting the political world aflame with its report that in 2009, Herschel Walker \u2014 who is running for U.S. Senate in Georgia while touting his opposition to abortion rights \u2014 paid for his then-girlfriend to obtain an abortion, the Daily Beast\u2019s Roger Sollenberger lit more kindling on Wednesday night: \u201cShe Had an Abortion With Herschel Walker. She Also Had a Child With Him.\u201d\nPlus, FDA reporter Katherine Foley stops by to dissect the stars for House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.). Happy birthday!\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.