Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona and a handful of other Democrats facing tough re-election bids are pitching a plan to suspend the federal gas tax through the end of the year.
“It’s a bad joke,” he said. “It’s a non-solution.”“Everything this administration has done is go to war against fossil fuels,” Cornyn said, arguing that the solution is to “encourage more oil and gas production.”
Kelly's office said the Highway Trust Fund, which receives a big chunk of its revenue from the gas tax, recently got a $118 billion infusion under the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law and that his bill would address any near-term issues by allowing the Treasury Department to add money from the general fund to cover this year’s funding needs.
Democrats leaving the lunch said a gas tax holiday was in the earliest stages of discussion and that it was too soon to say how exactly the legislation could be brought to the Senate floor. Ben Cardin, D-Md., called Kelly's presentation “informational,” while Tim Kaine, D-Va., was noncommittal, saying he needs to study the issue.
Rick Scott of Florida, the chairman of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm this election cycle, argued that Kelly wants to have it both ways: sponsoring the gas tax holiday while backing pieces of Biden’s agenda that would raise certain taxes.
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