sandra: america s energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the government billions of dollars in revenue. sandra: former president obama famously called it a gimmick in 2008, and all of this as we expect president biden to pin the blame once again on his favorite bogeyman, vladimir putin. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house. hi, jacqui. jacqui: good afternoon to you. the president is expected to call on congress to extend a federal gas tax holiday, som
president biden circumventing congress on immigration. this time shielding half a million migrants from deportation. how will he do that? we ll tell you now. i m bill hemmer live in new york. dana has the week off today. like a ray of sunshine. martha: i m martha maccallum, this is america s newsroom. this afternoon president biden will mark the 12th anniversary of daca with a new policy rewarding some migrants who came to the united states illegally. bill: that will block deportations for half a million people married to u.s. citizens as well as 50,000 of their kids. it applies to people who have lived here for at least ten years and that excludes anyone with prior deportations. martha: the action coming less than five months before the presidential election where the border, of course, could be a deciding factor . former acting dhs secretary chad wolf thinks it s about optics. it certainly will be a challenged. the timing you indicated is really important here. ob
to feed your family. let s bring in tommy porter. he is in charge of the livestock there on a farm in north carolina. thanks very much for joining us, sir. when we talk about inflation, it affects us all in different ways. how about you? how have you seen your prices go up? everything we do is affected by inflation. number 1, fuel costs. that affects everything that we do. everything is transported by fuel. fertilizer costs are affected by fuel. chemicals are anywhere from two to four times what they were a year ago. feed is way more expensive than it was a year ago. luckily we booked some last fall. we still have some on hand. that hasn t hit us directly yet. but it will. we ll run out quickly. fuel is the number 1 factor. fertilizer, three to four times what it was a year ago. we can t grow a crop without