“President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran,” Politico reports.
“The attack and Iran’s subsequent targeting of the Persian Gulf’s energy sector has sent crude oil up more than $10 a barrel, lifting gasoline prices to their highest levels since Trump took office last year.”
Playbook: “Wiles knows a crisis when she sees one. Ideas under discussion in the White House include a temporary holiday on the gasoline tax — although that would require action from Congress, and there’s no guarantee oil refiners and gas stations would pass savings along. Some administration officials also floated using the U.S. military to defend energy infrastructure in the Middle East.”
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