WASHINGTON - Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released the following statement on Biden's latest gas price gimmick:
“No one is buying Biden’s gimmicks, yet Americans are paying the price for his anti-U.S. energy agenda. Struggling families simply can’t afford the Biden gas hike. But Biden and the Democrats don’t care about the pain families are feeling at the pump as this is all part of their ‘transition’ to fit their agenda.”
Background:
Even Democrats, the media, and Biden’s preferred economists have bashed the gas tax holiday as a gimmick:
- Barack Obama, 2008: “For us to suggest 30 cents a day for three months is real relief, that that’s a real energy policy, means that we are not tackling the problem that has to be tackled. We are offering gimmicks."
- Obama said, “this isn’t an idea designed to get you through the summer. It’s an idea designed to get them through an election.”
- Nancy Pelosi, 2022: “The pro is very showbiz. ‘OK, let’s just do something, there it is.’ But it is not necessarily landing in the pocket of the consumer.”
- CNN: It “would do nothing to fix the supply shock driving up prices...Secondly, it would push demand in the wrong direction.”
- Biden’s favorite economist, Moody’s Mark Zandi , says that Biden’s proposal would actually be a massive tax cut for oil companies.
