The White House has doubled down on its opposition to allowing the federal gas tax to rise at the rate of inflation, reports the Associated Press. The statement was in response to a bipartisan infrastructure bill currently being crafted in the senate.
“The President has been clear throughout these negotiations: He is adamantly opposed to raising taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said. “After the extraordinarily hard times that ordinary Americans endured in 2020 — job losses, shrinking incomes, squeezed budgets — he is simply not going to allow Congress to raise taxes on those who suffered the most.”