{"id":437074,"date":"2026-05-12T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/437074\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:34:09","slug":"what-trumps-gas-tax-plan-says-about-the-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/437074\/","title":{"rendered":"What Trump\u2019s Gas Tax Plan Says About the War With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">I\u2019m Nancy Cook, Bloomberg\u2019s senior national political correspondent, and each weekday I\u2019ll be coming to you with inside-the-room reporting and insights that reveal what\u2019s really happening in Washington \u2014 and how it impacts you. Email me with feedback and comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-05-11\/mailto:ncook40@bloomberg.net\" title=\"ncook40@bloomberg.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">here<\/a>. If this newsletter was forwarded to you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/washington?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=washington\" title=\"Washington Edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">President Trump\u2019s backing of a temporary suspension of the federal gasoline tax is an implicit acknowledgment that the war in Iran isn\u2019t ending anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Nancy Cook, Bloomberg\u2019s senior national political correspondent, and each weekday I\u2019ll be coming to you with inside-the-room&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[114,7737,4318,30422,81924,42,87,29239,43,238,4320,40,38,41,39,22093,2201,7421],"class_list":["post-437074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-business","tag-congress","tag-federal-reserve","tag-gas-prices","tag-generic-1st-xb-future","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-national-public-radio","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-supreme-court","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-securities-and-exchange-commission","tag-war","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}