transportation fund. he says he s reduced the deficit by 1.6 trillion, so there s room. to the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump, this is a time of war. global peril. ukraine. these are not normal times. bring down the price you re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you re paying for the product. do it now. do it today. the president not changing any of his policies. the votes may not be in congress to do what he wants. i m willing to embrace his proposals for a gas tax holiday. i don t know whether we ll get the votes it needs here in the senate. i m talking to my colleagues. nancy pelosi has in the past criticized a gas tax holiday. the senior policy director for the committee for responsible federal budget is concerned that the $10 billion hole would grow as pressure would keep the gas stacks suspension even longer than three months. listen. at best, this will reduce the inflation rate by 0.1%. as soon as the holiday is ove
federal reserve is directly contradicting the president about the main driver behind that inflation. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. for now rebate cards are out and the federal gas tax holiday is in. president biden s problem few democrats don t see the point. i fully understand that a gas tax holiday alone is not going to fix the problem. but it will provide families some immediate relief. president biden wants congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days to bring down prices at the pump. but evidently didn t nail down lawmaker support before making the public plea and congress is lukewarm. house speaker nancy pelosi writing: we will see where the consensus lies on a path forward. democrat senator joe manchin indicated the votes may not be there at all telling abc. i m not a yes right now that s for sure. even if congress gets on board, there is nothin
the late show with stephen colbert on cbs. they came yesterday for the 1-6. they came to the house office buildings to interview two members of the 1-6 committee, adam schiff and stephanie murph bear they also interviewed massachusetts democrat he is no the 1-6 committee. capitol police showed they grou away from the 1-6 committee hearing area because they did not have proper press credentials. they told the denied them credentials because they are no news, however, fox has confirme the group was led back into the long with house office building by an aide after 4:00 p.m., fox told the aide thought they had more interviews to do. they remained in the house office buildings unattended for hours. the group was arrested after th building closed the arrest came around 8:30 p.m. eastern time. they were near the office of gop , colorado representative they had no escort at that point . we ve got to get more information which is why we nee investigation. we need to make sure we un
the weekday. laura: okay, that makes sense. as long as we are on your dvr, i m totally cool with what you have. sean: i can prove it to you. i ll take a picture. laura: my kids are coming to check on that, thank you, sean. great show as always. all right, i m laura ingraham and the ingraham angle from washington tonight. thanks for being here. skipping to 2024, that s the focus of tonight s angle. now frantically trying to shake off his lame duck status, joe biden s busy rallying support in the senate. headline in the hill tells the story, democratic senator say biden is not too old for a second term. senators are trying to sound enthusiastic about the soon to be octogenarian. greg kuhn said i look forward to working hard for joe biden in 2024. come on. bob casey predicted he is to be the nominee and he s going to be strong. but they know what we know, come on. there is no momentum out there. at the risk of political rigor mortis holds over biden, attentions already t
president trump, partly out of concern it would give the appearance of pressure on the attorney general. politico argues that the first three hearings essentially did that for them, laying out stark evidence that trump and his allying now the election was not rig, but they pushed the big lie anyway. there s new evidence that the department of justice may be growing frustrated against the committee as well. we learned of a strongly worded letter by the doj, in which the department accuses committee members of complicating investigations by withholding transcripts of witness interviews, it says, quote, are not just potentially relevant to the overall communications, but likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. however, committee chairman bennie thompson made it clear he is not rushing to help out. we ve interviewed over 1,000 witnesses, that would mean we have to stop what we re doing to then work with the department of justice. we will eventually