Ben Myselis

It's like 18 cents on, it's like 18 cents.

And so it taking away the gas tax would add,

between two to two and a half billion dollars the national debt uh per month and gas has of course as anybody who's been to a gas station knows gas has already went up far more than 18 cents so 18 cents is not even a dent in the amount that gas has gone up already i think gas has gone up with like a dollar fifty or so since the war began it's an average of around

$4.60, $4.65, it's expected to hit $5 at some point down the road.

And so that 18 cents is again, that's painting the bottom of the pool blue.

It's not doing anything to make it better, but you know what it's going to do?

Further down the line, that is going to screw over our country because that is the money that's used to improve our federal highways.

That is the money that's used to improve our federal roads.

And so all of a sudden, we're not going to have any revenue from that.

And this isn't due to some sort of force majeure situation where we have to do this because there's been this external crisis that now we have to take these extreme measures.

Donald Trump is the cause of this with his war.

And I could be more sympathetic to suspending a gas tax in my personal view if there was some existential thing happening, some external factors happening overseas that we could not control.

The fact that Donald Trump himself is the one responsible for driving up these gas prices, and now he wants the American people to thank him because he's considering taking 18 cents off your gas bill is absolutely outrageous to me.

And you just see this pattern of conning people over and over.

I'll just show this chart.

I saw Sarah Eisen post earlier today on CNBC.

Jordi, your show, I think she does Squawk Box.

And sorry, but, you know, Sarah Eisen said, ahead of President Trump and Xi meeting this week, important to note that fentanyl deaths in America have come down recently.

And she shows this chart, and the chart shows Trump one, Biden and Trump two.

And what Sarah Eisen, she is somebody who,