Trump Wants to Suspend Gas Tax as Peace Deal Seems Nowhere in Sight

President Trump wants to suspend the federal gas tax, telling CBS News Monday that he thinks “it’s a great idea.”“We’re going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we’ll let it phase back in,” Trump said in a phone interview. It’s a tacit admission that the effects of the Iran war aren’t going away anytime soon.Gas prices have gone up 50 percent since the war started February 28, and cost an average of $4.52 per gallon in the U.S. as of this writing. As long as Ir...