{"id":56185,"date":"2023-01-27T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56185"},"modified":"2023-01-28T00:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T08:38:49","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-bashes-biden-for-bringing-down-gas-prices-ted-lieu-claps-back-brilliantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56185","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene Bashes Biden for Bringing Down Gas Prices, Ted Lieu Claps Back Brilliantly"},"content":{"rendered":"

The price of gas has long been a major factor in assessing the approval of the President and other government officials. Prior to last year’s midterm election Republicans attempted to use high gas prices to drag down President Biden and the electoral prospects of congressional Democrats. It didn’t work<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Now gas prices have fallen considerably. They now average about $3.44 per gallon nationwide, which is equal to where they were two years ago. That’s down from a high of $5.02 in June of 2022. And even though prices fell each month for the remainder of last year, the GOP furiously condemned Biden as being responsible for the high prices and criticized him for not bringing them down.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Karine Jean-Pierre Has to School Peter Doocy of Fox News that Lower Gas Prices Are a Good Thing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Friday on the floor of the House of Representatives, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-QAnon) sought to make gas prices an issue again. But this time she was appalled that Biden had taken measures to lower gas prices. How dare Biden make the cost of living more affordable for the American people? This debate was centered around her amendment (which later lost by a landslide<\/a><\/strong> 14 to 418 vote) to place restrictions on when and how a president can utilize the Strategic Petroleum Reserves. She fumed that…<\/p>\n

“President Biden abused his power to sell our oil, reduce gas prices, so that the midterm elections would swing Democrats’ way. It’s a shame to trick the American people just to win an election. No president should be able to use their emergency powers for politics.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says Biden abused his power by lowering gas prices before an election pic.twitter.com\/qgv0SiRsRs<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n