Susan Ferrechio and Tom Howell Jr., Washington Times
Soaring inflation, rising gasoline prices and crushing housing costs have pressured Republicans in Congress to make an emergency pivot to affordability measures as they face an increasingly dissatisfied electorate that could boot them out of the majority after November. Lawmakers are weighing a suspension of the federal gas tax and a sweeping housing reform bill after arriving Tuesday on Capitol Hill amid alarming economic news: Consumer prices rose 3.8% from a year earlier in April, the highest annual rate since May 2023.
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