Most of the left aren’t interested in helping the American people. They simply want power.
And a leading Democrat wants to keep gas prices high for this ridiculous reason.
In a stunning display of Washington priorities, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut made it crystal clear where his loyalties lie—and it is not with struggling American families filling up their tanks.
On Monday during CNN’s “The Source,” the Connecticut Democrat unloaded on any idea of suspending the federal gas tax. While everyday workers watch pump prices climb and family budgets get crushed, Murphy chose to lecture about foreign policy instead of offering immediate relief.
Host Kaitlan Collins pressed him directly on the president’s call to suspend the federal gas tax, noting it would need congressional approval. Murphy’s response revealed the cold calculation of the political class.
“Well, the quickest way to get gas prices down, Kaitlan, is to end this war. And what the president seems to be preparing for is an endless war. So, he wants to use any other mechanism available to him to try to allow him to keep the United States engaged in Iran forever. That is a disaster,” the senator stated.
“So, no, I’m not willing to help the president spend billions of dollars of my taxpayers’ money every single day on a war that is empowering Iran and bringing the entire world’s economy to a standstill. Let’s end the war. Let’s put all of our energy into ending the war, rather than trying to use tax policy to allow the war to continue indefinitely. That’s insanity.”
Murphy doubled down, showing zero interest in practical steps that could ease the burden right now:
“I’m not terribly interested in efforts to try to manage the war and help the president continue the war.”
This is the same attitude we see time and again from coastal elites. While truckers, farmers, and working moms feel the daily sting of higher fuel costs, politicians like Murphy play games with American pain.
They treat gas prices as a political weapon rather than a crisis hitting kitchen tables across the heartland.
He also admitted that even a gas tax suspension would not return prices to pre-war levels. According to Murphy, costs would keep rising anyway.
His solution? Keep hammering the president until the war ends on terms that satisfy Democratic demands.
“So we need to keep the pressure on this president to do what the American people want him to do, which is to bring this war to an end. Because as long as this war goes on, it’s not just the price of gas that’s going to go up, it’s groceries, it’s electronics, it’s clothing, everything starts to get pricier as the cost of a barrel of oil continues to go through the roof,” Murphy said.
Notice what Murphy refuses to do. He will not lift a finger to deliver even temporary relief to citizens getting hammered at the pump.
Instead, he frames tax relief as enabling conflict, as if working families should serve as pawns in a grand strategy debate.
