Biden calls on Congress to approve 3-month gas tax holiday
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | DC's new big debate should you get 18 cents off a gallon of gas. |
| 0:07.0 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.2 | Is something better than nothing President Biden calls on Congress to suspend the federal |
| 0:13.8 | gas tax, a proposal his former boss president Obama once called a gimmick, plus. |
| 0:19.8 | Key Republicans publicly defending their support for a bipartisan gun bill. |
| 0:26.3 | If I listened to all of the critics, I wouldn't get much done. |
| 0:32.3 | What's in the bill? |
| 0:33.3 | What's not? |
| 0:34.3 | As Congress comes close on the first major gun reform in decades, we'll tell you next |
| 0:37.4 | and an investigation into a toxic work culture inside the NFL, reports of a woman. |
| 0:42.9 | Haydhaw, the settler's sexual assault case against Dan Snyder, the owner of the Washington |
| 0:47.4 | Commander's football team. |
| 0:49.2 | What the league's commissioner, Roger Gidell, told Congress today about the new allegations. |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper. |
| 1:00.1 | We start today with our money lead and President Biden's latest attempt to tame the insanely |
| 1:04.5 | high gas prices plaguing Americans. |
| 1:07.0 | The president this afternoon called on Congress to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax, |
| 1:11.9 | which is right now about 18 cents a gallon. |
| 1:14.0 | It's a move President Biden has resisted until today, given that it is unlikely to pass |
| 1:19.5 | Congress. |
| 1:20.5 | Republicans widely oppose it, and even some leading Democrats are skeptical that oil companies |
| 1:25.6 | will actually pass that savings on to drivers. |
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