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President Joe Biden wants Congress to suspend federal gas taxes for 90 days, with the White House saying that the goal is to bring down prices at the pump for the “summer driving season.”
“The next three months, the next 90 days is when American families — people are going to be driving the most,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. But that would, of course, mean the gas tax would be added back to the price at the pump about a month before the midterm elections.
