{"id":73355,"date":"2026-05-11T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/trump-vows-to-pause-federal-gas-tax-after-iran-war-boosts-us-fuel-prices-to-four-year-high\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:56:31","slug":"trump-vows-to-pause-federal-gas-tax-after-iran-war-boosts-us-fuel-prices-to-four-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/trump-vows-to-pause-federal-gas-tax-after-iran-war-boosts-us-fuel-prices-to-four-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump vows to pause federal gas tax after Iran war boosts US fuel prices to four-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National average for gas prices has risen by well over a dollar per gallon since late February<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump pledged to suspend the US federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/gas\">gas<\/a> tax in a bid to reduce pressure on Americans after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">US-Israel war<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a> sparked a sharp rise in fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>The US president told reporters on Monday that his administration would look to pause the tax \u201ctill it\u2019s appropriate\u201d, as drivers count the cost of the surge in oil prices in the two months since US and Israel forces attacked Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/11\/trump-federal-gas-tax-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National average for gas prices has risen by well over a dollar per gallon since late February Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump pledged to suspend the US federal gas tax in a bid to reduce pressure on Americans after the US-Israel war on Iran sparked a sharp rise in &#8230; <a title=\"Trump vows to pause federal gas tax after Iran war boosts US fuel prices to four-year high\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/trump-vows-to-pause-federal-gas-tax-after-iran-war-boosts-us-fuel-prices-to-four-year-high\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump vows to pause federal gas tax after Iran war boosts US fuel prices to four-year high\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}