During the press conference, Wasserman Schultz expressed support for the Gas Price Relief Act, which would suspend the 18.4-cent federal gas tax whenever the national average price of gas exceeds $4 per gallon and fully offset the lost revenue by redirecting roughly $30 billion in existing federal oil and gas subsidies into the fund.
I will support the Gas Price Relief Act to suspend the federal gas tax when national gas prices exceed $4 per gallon and offset the lost revenue with existing oil and gas subsidies.
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During the press conference, Wasserman Schultz expressed support for the Gas Price Relief Act, which would suspend the 18.4-cent federal gas tax whenever the national average price of gas exceeds $4 per gallon and fully offset the lost revenue by redirecting roughly $30 billion in existing federal oil and gas subsidies into the fund.
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The promise was framed as a commitment to support the Gas Price Relief Act, not to single-handedly enact it. During her current federal House term, Wasserman Schultz publicly backed the bill and described the same core mechanism: suspending the 18.4-cent federal gas tax when national gas prices exceed about $4 per gallon and offsetting the Highway Trust Fund loss by redirecting oil and gas subsidies. There is no evidence in the payload that the bill became law, but enactment was not the specific promise being judged; the promised support was delivered in the same term.