President Trump on Wednesday said he in favor of a 25-cent gas tax hike to pay for his infrastructure plan.
He told lawmakers and senior White House officials that he endorses a gas tax hike, sources familiar with the meeting told Axios.
Sen. Tom Carper (Del.), the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, was in the meeting and confirmed in a statement that the president backed a 25-cent increase.
“President Trump came back to the idea of a 25 cent increase several times throughout the meeting,” Carper said in a statement.
“While there are a number of issues on which President Trump and I disagree, today, we agreed that things worth having are worth paying for, and the president even offered to help provide the leadership necessary so that we could do something that has proven difficult in the past.”
The administration unveiled an infrastructure proposal earlier this week. It did not include an increase in the gas tax.
Officials have been mulling an increase in the federal gasoline tax for months as a means to pay for the infrastructure package.
Tom Donohue, president of the Chamber of Commerce, called last month for a 25-cent increase over five years, but said that he would also support a one-time 25-cent increase.
The gas tax supports the Highway Trust Fund to pay for road projects, and has not been raised in more than two decades.
The White House unveiled Trump’s long-awaited infrastructure overhaul on Monday, a $1.5 trillion package that would include a $200 billion contribution from the federal government.
This should take care of that middle class tax break.
yup…thought this guy was the business man…knows damn good and well costs of everything will go up….for sure we are getting ‘the business;
I was about to post the exact same thing Henry – Well, there goes our little pittance of a tax break!
So many of us are dancin’ as fast as we can, and are stretched so thin, and they keep on taking, milking. Seems they’re drooling for collapse.
They’ll probably settle on 15% so we can go, “Oh good, they didn’t do 25%.” I’ve seen that strategy for years.
It’s easy to complain; it’s not as easy to make ends meet. No fun when the devil’s in charge.
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yup trumpers are happy with the massa’s crumbs…got a few in my family …don’t talk to them much
It’s just a matter of squeezing every penny they can out of us. Let’s see how much of this is actually spent on infrastructure.
Answer: None.
NONE, BUT TRUMPY WILL GET HIS KICKBACKS. OF THAT I CAN PROMISE……
Wow, that didn’t take long after his supposed tax cut huh? So let me get this straight, pretend to cut taxes in one place while raising the taxes for military spending, gas, etc. What was the slogan? Make America great Again? Hahaha, trumpettes!
remember GHWB: ‘read my lips….no new taxes’
Yeah, lol, that was a good one!
The Globalists have long strived for 5$/gallon gas in America. With Swampmaster Trump, they just might get it.
OMG! that would end any attempt at recovery. 25 cents a gallon!
Plus he is ready to throw gun owners under the bus over this Florida shooting.
“Recovery” was never supposed to happen and he was ALWAYS going to undermine 2A further. That’s why he’s there. The trumpan horse.