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The Iran War has disrupted energy markets for more than 10 weeks. Now President Trump says he wants to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax. And here's Daniel Kurt Slaven reports on Trump's latest response to surging prices at the pump. Suspending the gas tax would require an act of Congress. Currently the tax is 18.3 cents per gallon of gas and 24.3 cents on diesel.
The potential suspension is an acknowledgment from the White House of the toll that high gas prices
have taken on American consumers. The latest NPRPBS News Marists poll found that eight in 10 Americans say gas prices are straining their budgets and that 63% say those price increases are Trump's fault. Regular gasoline costs just under $3 per gallon before the U.S. bombed Iran. Now it costs 50% more at $4.52 a according to AAA.
Daniel Kurt Slaven and PR News the White House. President Trump cannot act to suspend the federal gas tax on his own. He would need to seek congressional approval. Lawmakers from both parties have pushed for such a move, though. Republicans said it are John Hoven of North Dakota.
“"Yeah, you know, I would, and I think others would, but what's going to make the real”
differences, what I just described again, I get in control of the street homeless."
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said Monday that Republicans could help cut the cost of gas if they would use the War Powers Act to rain in President Trump. The federal tax is currently set at just over 18 cents per gallon on gasoline and roughly 24 cents per gallon on diesel fuel.
President Trump is to leave for a trip to China Tuesday. The White House says the focus of his trip is keeping a trade stable, but the Iran War will likely loom in the background China a major buyer of Iranian oil at the White House on Monday, Trump called Iran's response to the U.S. proposal to end the war garbage and said the cease fires on life support.
18 Americans aboard a cruise ship hit with a hunt to virus outbreak every turn to the U.S. as impairs pink quang reports are staying in specialized facilities for observation and treatment.
“U.S. cruise passengers arrived at the University of Nebraska Medical Center home to a federally”
funded quarantine unit. Dr. Michael Wadman oversees the facilities in which 15 passengers who don't have symptoms are quarantining. The 15 that were welcomed here were in good shape. They were in good spirits.
They definitely were tired and needed some rest so we did a quick assessment. One passenger who tested mildly positive for hunt of ours is staying in a higher level by a containment unit and two passengers were sent to Atlanta, a couple in which one person has symptoms. They're staying in biocontainment at Emory University.
Health officials said the passengers would be monitored for symptoms over 42 days, though after an initial assessment some may do it from home, ping huang and PR news. And you're listening to in PR news. The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily extended access to the abortion medication with a pristone.
The order allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the pristone at pharmacies or through the mail without an in-person visit to a doctor at least through Thursday. While the court considers whether to allow restrictions imposed by a federal appeals court to take effect. The Trump administration's State Department did not participate in a UN forum last week
about international migration. And here's Michelle Calamand reports on how the administration is trying to redefine refugee issues. UN member states met last week to recommit themselves to what's known as the global compact for safe orderly and regular migration.
But the U.S. State Department says its goal is not to manage migration, but to foster what it calls "remigration," that is, getting migrants to leave the U.S. and return to their home countries. In the statement, the Department also accuses the UN of trying to advocate for and facilitate "replacement immigration in the U.S., the State Department did not explain what that means,
though the language echoes that of the White Nationalist Great Replacement Theory." Michelle Calamand and PR News, the State Department. Following Monday's rally on Wall Street shares in Asia are mixed stocks in Tokyo and Hong Kong are up, but they're declining in Seoul, Sydney, and Shanghai. South Korea's benchmark is down more than 1% on profit taking.
Oil prices are steady, at around $104 per barrel.
I'm Joel Snyder, this is NPR News.
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