{"id":619338,"date":"2026-05-02T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619338\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:07:05","slug":"trump-is-running-out-of-options-to-contain-gas-price-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619338\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is running out of options to contain gas price backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DNHU4ACE4BB5FKCYJKE5KPMCQE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Gas prices are surging, voter backlash is building, and inside the White House, the options to lower prices at the pump are dwindling.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QNT3ZWLZOVCVFDM4POWSHXU3AI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The national average gas price rose to a wartime high of $4.39 on Friday, up more than 30 cents from a week ago. Analysts warn that prices will continue to rise as long as the Strait of Hormuz is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/30\/trump-iran-standoff-strait-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">closed to shipping traffic<\/a>, as a stalemate between President Donald Trump and Iran traps oil, petroleum and other products in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices are surging, voter backlash is building, and inside the White House, the options to lower prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-619338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}