Dick Durbin: “Gasoline prices, would that be a national emergency? To the…”

“No. How about the President's tariff taxes? Tariff taxes that have raised the cost of living across the United States? No, that's not the national emergency. Gasoline prices, would that be a national emergency? To the Senate leaders, it's $5.49 a gallon in Chicago last weekend. but that's not it. How about grocery prices, utility prices, rent prices, daycare prices? No, that's not on the Republican agenda as a national emergency.” (00:53–01:03)

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