Biden Pushes for Gas Tax Holiday

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sarah, Steve, and Jonah dive into a delightful political potpourri, tackling everything from the Biden administration’s possible gas tax holiday to immigration and the Georgia congressional runoffs. They also discuss the House Select Committee’s January 6 hearing on Tuesday, which produced some interesting testimonies. Show Notes: -TMD: “Biden’s Mixed Messages on Oil” -Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal: “Biden Got the Energy Market He Wanted” -Capitolism: “Fueling Uncertainty” -TMD: “How Trump and His Aides Pressured State Officials” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Dispatch podcast.
0:02.3	I'm your host Sarah Izger joined by Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg.
0:06.1	We finally got rid of David French guys.
0:08.2	Congratulations to everyone.
0:10.3	Just kidding.
0:11.3	David's on a plane to DC for a special advisory opinions taping.
0:15.3	So he'll be back next week.
0:17.0	We got plenty to talk about.
0:19.2	The Gas Tax holiday proposed by the Biden administration
0:23.0	with raging inflation continuing the January 6 hearings.
0:27.8	How they're going.
0:29.4	And politics, hopery, immigration, gun bill, latest elections.
0:48.9	Let's dive right in.
0:50.8	President Biden had been ruminating, if you will, on a gas tax.
0:55.3	Finally, coming out and announcing that he wanted Congress
0:58.5	to pass a gas tax holiday for the summer,
1:02.1	expiring in early September, met with not a lot of enthusiasm
1:08.2	from his own party, Nancy Pelosi, saying she
1:10.4	would see what the consensus was.
1:11.8	Joe Manchin in the Senate saying, no, he would not vote for it,
1:16.3	making it basically dead on arrival in Congress.
1:20.2	In the past, plenty of politicians
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