{"id":1527002,"date":"2022-06-23T15:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527002"},"modified":"2022-06-23T15:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:19:33","slug":"this-washington-dem-blasted-federal-gas-tax-holidays-until-she-was-up-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-washington-dem-blasted-federal-gas-tax-holidays-until-she-was-up-for-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"This Washington Dem Blasted Federal Gas Tax Holidays\u2014Until She Was Up for Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-washington-dem-blasted-federal-gas-tax-holidays-until-she-was-up-for-reelection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527002&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Senator Patty Murray called a gas tax suspension a &#8216;bad idea.&#8217; Now, she&#8217;s on board<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.) \t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 June 23, 2022 3:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>During a non-election year, Washington Democratic senator Patty Murray called a federal gas tax holiday a &#8220;bad idea&#8221; that may not lower prices at the pump. Now that she&#8217;s up for reelection, she&#8217;s on board with the plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Murray\u2014who is expected to face Republican triage nurse Tiffany Smiley in November\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/3609\/cosponsors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>quietly signed on<\/span><\/a><span> to Senate Democrats&#8217; gas tax suspension bill in late April, more than two months after it was introduced. But in 2008, when Murray was not embroiled in a reelection fight, the Democrat <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/transportation\/article\/Gas-tax-holiday-would-cost-state-126-million-1272531.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> the policy a &#8220;bad idea&#8221; that would &#8220;deteriorate highway funding.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;She has a firsthand look at what&#8217;s going on with our transportation systems, our roads and our bridges, and from her perspective, this is a bad idea,&#8221; then-Murray spokeswoman Alex Glass told the <\/span><i><span>Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/span><\/i><span> at the time. &#8220;There&#8217;s no guarantee that the plan would result in lower gas prices, but it would deteriorate highway funding.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Murray is far from the only prominent Democrat to express past disapproval toward a gas tax suspension, which President Joe Biden says would &#8220;bring down the price of gas and give families just a little bit of relief.&#8221; In 2008, then-senator Barack Obama\u2014Biden&#8217;s self-described &#8220;best friend&#8221;\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/democrats-think-bidens-gas-tax-holiday-is-a-gimmick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> the move a politically motivated &#8220;gimmick.&#8221; Many congressional Democrats agree. Oregon congressman Peter DeFazio, for example, said a gas tax holiday would not &#8220;give consumers significant relief\u2014if any at all&#8221; and would instead &#8220;blow a $26 billion hole in the highway trust fund&#8221; and kill &#8220;tens of thousands of jobs.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Murray has not explicitly touted her decision to sign on to Democrats&#8217; gas tax suspension bill. Instead, she vaguely claims to be &#8220;fighting to deliver results&#8221; at the gas pump. Murray has, however, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PattyMurray\/status\/1493330708206551040?s=20&#038;t=2yuOvOXBFmlcE7wlqairWQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>stressed<\/span><\/a><span> the need to &#8220;modernize&#8221; Washington&#8217;s roads and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PattyMurray\/status\/1501004522860072960?s=20&#038;t=LRxd2n0QMpUkonhry36Bwg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>fund<\/span><\/a><span> electric vehicles. The Democrat did not return a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gas prices have more than doubled since Biden took office. The national average price for a gallon of gas was $2.39 in January 2021. Now, it&#8217;s $4.90, according to AAA. Should Biden convince Congress to enact a gas tax holiday, the move would hardly help American consumers. The president&#8217;s plan would suspend the 18-cent federal gas tax on each gallon of gasoline, saving the average consumer roughly $5 a month, according to GasBuddy. That move would cost roughly $3.3 billion a month, the White House claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Murray joined the Senate in 1993 and has not faced a competitive reelection bid in more than a decade. That could change this year as Democrats navigate a difficult political climate under Biden. Just 40 percent of Washington voters approve of the president, compared with 49 percent who disapprove. Biden won the state by nearly 20 points in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Senator Patty Murray called a gas tax suspension a &#8216;bad idea.&#8217; Now, she&#8217;s on board  Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.)  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