President Joe Biden urged Congress on Wednesday to suspend the federal gas tax until the end of September in a bid to lower soaring prices at the pump, which reached $5 per gallon nationwide earlier this month.
Lifting the federal 18-cent tax per gallon of gas and 24-cent tax per gallon of diesel for three months would “give Americans a little extra breathing room as they deal with the effects of Putin’s war in Ukraine,” the White House said in a fact sheet.