President Donald Trump said he had agreed to “help Mexico along” in a deal with Russian and Saudi Arabia to curb global oil production.

“We are trying to get Mexico, as the expression goes, over the barrel,” Trump said in a White House news conference on Friday. He said Mexico had agreed to reduce its production by 100,000 barrels per day; the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia had sought more.

Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday for the second day in a row, after speaking with Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday. The Mexican president said he had reached a deal with Trump for Mexico to sign onto OPEC+ production cuts. It’s unclear whether other nations have endorsed any Trump-AMLO deal.

“In speaking with the president, they have a limit; the OPEC nations have agreed to a different limit, a reduction of about 23 per cent,” Trump said. “So what I thought I would do -- I don’t know if it’s going to be acceptable, we’ll find out -- the United States will help Mexico along and they’ll reimburse us sometime at a later date when they’re prepared to do so.”

Mexico said Friday it had agreed to a deal after initially balking at a 400,000-barrel-per-day cut, though Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said Friday at a Group of 20 meeting that the deal isn’t done yet.

AMLO said his country can only cut production by 100,000 barrels a day, but that Trump had offered to cut an additional 250,000 barrels from U.S. output. Trump didn’t mention that figure in his remarks.

Trump has said U.S. production would slow “automatically” in respons to market conditions. U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, in opening remarks at the G20 meeting on Friday, said he predicted a decline of nearly 2 million barrels a day in U.S. output by the end of this year.

Talks were effectively continuing on through the G20 meeting, rather than the forum being a rubber-stamp for the OPEC+ agreement. Trump and Putin “discussed the latest efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic and maintain stability in global energy markets,” according to a White House statement released earlier Friday.