{"id":4010,"date":"2026-05-13T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/13\/trumps-gas-tax-relief-plan-a-small-price-break-with-big-funding-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:29:13","slug":"trumps-gas-tax-relief-plan-a-small-price-break-with-big-funding-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/13\/trumps-gas-tax-relief-plan-a-small-price-break-with-big-funding-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Gas Tax Relief Plan: A Small Price Break With Big Funding Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump is proposing a federal gas tax holiday to alleviate rising fuel costs, but experts warn the consumer savings would be minimal. Suspending the tax, which is 18.4 cents per gallon, could result in savings of only 10-12 cents per gallon after distribution costs. Furthermore, this measure could significantly strain the Highway Trust Fund, which relies on this revenue for road construction and maintenance, potentially impacting future infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n

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President Trump is proposing a federal gas tax holiday to alleviate rising fuel costs, but experts warn the consumer savings would be minimal. Suspending the tax, which is 18.4 cents per gallon, could result in savings of only 10-12 cents per gallon after distribution costs. Furthermore, this measure could significantly strain the Highway Trust Fund, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108305561-17785910491778591032-45886306534-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1778591048&w=1920&h=1080&auto=webp&quality=perfect&bgchannelid=15&","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_executive-donald-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108305561-17785910491778591032-45886306534-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1778591048&w=1920&h=1080&auto=webp&quality=perfect&bgchannelid=15&","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}