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Trump: Surging gas costs are ‘very inexpensive price to pay’ for Iran war
President Trump referred to surging gas prices as a small “price to pay” for the U.S. war in Iran while speaking to a crowd of supporters Wednesday in North Carolina. “It’s a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done. Remember that. It’s a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more,”…
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Source context: The reasons aren't hard to divine. Trump won on a platform of lowering costs and avoiding foreign entanglements. Now diesel prices are hovering above $6 a gallon because of a war that predictably squeezed Middle Eastern energy supplies.
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Nearly the entire Democratic caucus in the Senate is demanding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provide Congress with a full accounting of the cost of the war in Iran along with related budget requests, as frustration grows that the Pentagon is not being forthcoming about the war and its fiscal impact.
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President Trump referred to surging gas prices as a small “price to pay” for the U.S. war in Iran while speaking to a crowd of supporters Wednesday in North Carolina. “It’s a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done. Remember that. It’s a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more,”…
Several Democrats said their questions about the conflict and its cost weren't fully answered.
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The reasons aren't hard to divine. Trump won on a platform of lowering costs and avoiding foreign entanglements. Now diesel prices are hovering above $6 a gallon because of a war that predictably squeezed Middle Eastern energy supplies.
