under trump administration. american oilfield is capable of more and it frustrates he when i heard biden say calling opec and venezuela wanting more oil, what about tex tech? we can do it here. todd: that was will cain reporting from midland, texas. current average, price of regular, $4.18 a gallon, one year ago $2.87, just one year. title 42 border policy ends next month, what does that mean for the border? tom homan will explain why the entire country needs to care about this. let s go on the open road with a safe stay! now get double best western rewards points on every stay. and with rewards points that never expire, you get free nights fast! book now at bestwestern.com.
waters. during the obama administration, at this point, they held 44 lease sales that totaled $2 billion in revenue to the federal government. we re missing an opportunity to provide revenues to the federal government, to provide energy for the american peep and he will to provide relief at the pump for everyday americans. ashley: frank, map it out for us here. with gas being $4.09 yesterday, the average is $4.18, a year ago $2.87, what will it look like for the average american to fill up in a month, six months from now, will it get any better? look, it is hard to predict prices going forward, the i think things that will affect it positively are adding production of oil and gas, adding supply to the mix. how do you do that? you send a message to the
deal with and that s the price of gas. today, $4.18 on average for gallon of regular. down from 4.25 week ago. 7 cents. that s good news, but it is still high. the president announced the emergency release from the reserves of a million barrels of oil day for the next six months. how low is the expectation for gas prices and when will we see that continue to slide more dramatically? when the president took this action to release those barrels of oil from the strategic reserve, that s one of the things that will help stabilize oil prices. there s no one piece. there s no one dial that controls those prices but that s something that will make an impact. so are some of the other steps that s been taken. a lot of this is where we got to look at the oil company executives to say they re not going to add issupply.
everyday items, including gas and food. todd: and now even some members of the media say allege successes aren t much to celebrate. brooke live with more, hey, bro. good morning, president claimed economic success think the march jobs report say the recovery plan is working. if 40 jobs were added in 50,000 short of the forecast but the white house claiming victory as unemployment fell to 3.6%. we have fewer people requiring assistant then we hit did in a time since 1970. so we saw the jobs crisis. we got america back to work. ashley: but the country is still down 1.6 million jobs from just before the pandemic. americans cannot avoid the sting of inflation. the fact inflation rates hitting staggering 7.9% and national average gas prices $4.18 a
it s just going to continue to get worse. unless they actually do things instead of talking about them. within the last few weeks we have seen some changes. the national average gallon of gas down from record highs 4.18 a gallon as average. of course a lot of people say that is simply too much money to spend at the gas pump. while this workweek is just getting started. one event on your calendars for tomorrow. former president barack obama making first return to the white house since leaving office in january of 2017. he will be joining president biden in an event celebrating the success of obamacare. steve, ainsley and lawrence, back to you guys. steve: mark, why would barack obama be coming back tomorrow? you know, the obamacare passed 12 years ago so it wouldn t be like 10 years ago. obviously if you had to do the math, you would probably think barack obama is still very popular in the democratic. joe biden and kamala harris not so much so, let s bring him in.