past 11 days in a row. american families forced to spend an average of $5,000 a year on gas compared to $2800 a year ago. interior secretary deb holland refusing to concede it is too big a burden to bear. americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events that are making things difficult for all of us. so it sounds like you are unwilling to say that gas prices are too high. we re doing all we can, senator. dana: grady trimble is following the story from chicago. good morning. good morning. gas prices are expected to keep rising this summer so when interior secretary deb holland wouldn t acknowledge in that hearing that gas prices right now are too high, it certainly raised eyebrows. we re doing all we can, senator, production on federal lands is up. it s a 45% increase from 2020. that s new drilling. that s up. but the production is also up. it s at an all-time high. president biden is allowing drilling on federa
past 11 days in a row. american families forced to spend an average of $5,000 a year on gas compared to $2800 a year ago. interior secretary deb holland refusing to concede it is too big a burden to bear. americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events that are making things difficult for all of us. so it sounds like you are unwilling to say that gas prices are too high. we re doing all we can, senator. dana: grady trimble is following the story from chicago. good morning. good morning. gas prices are expected to keep rising this summer so when interior secretary deb holland wouldn t acknowledge in that hearing that gas prices right now are too high, it certainly raised eyebrows. we re doing all we can, senator, production on federal lands is up. it s a 45% increase from 2020.
secretary holland wouldn t say whether the new plan would include any new leases for new offshore drilling, dana. dana: thank you so much. dagen, good to have you this morning to help us understand what the interior secretary is supposed to do is try to allow for oil and gas development, responsible conservation minded, environmentally safe as it can be. she wouldn t concede anything. when i heard that piece of sound from the interior secretary i only thought of you. how can you go your interior department has been responsible for just in the last week canceling those lease sales, three lease sales on federal water, and you are going in front of the senate and having no response to record high gasoline but also near record high diesel prices, which will feed through to additional inflation. i was astonished that they are never prepared and the energy
declared war on american oil and gas. he hates the industry and doesn t want the industry to be producing. what about all the increase in regulations? what about the massive increase, austan, in the debt the $3 trillion of spending last year? i said on this show when you were on with me it would lead to very high inflation and that s exactly what we have. dana: so austan, let s say the president is like my hands there is nothing i can do here. they don t even seem to be willing to show a little bit of compassion for the people out there who are really struggling. the interior secretary yesterday basically say she wouldn t say that gas prices are too high. today you wake up and the president has another record low poll number at 39%. give you the last word. for sure when inflation is high people will be in a sour mood. you see that in the polling. i haven t seen that there is a lack of sympathy.
one percent margin we will move forward with an automatic recount in pennsylvania. dana: with a state that is as diverse and amazing as pennsylvania is, there was concern out of lancaster county that county still counting thousands of ballots. a printing error. do you have more information about what happened there? yes. on the morning of election day they found there was an issue with the bar codes on the mail-in ballots. impacted 22,000 ballots. when they were pre-canvassing where in pennsylvania election officials aren t able to open and process the ballots until 7:00 a.m. on election day, they discovered the issue. so we ve been in contact with lancaster county. they have actually continued and finished remarking those ballots and processed all of them. so that s completed as of now. right now statewide there are