White House's 'marked shift in rhetoric' flagged as Trump admin gives up on big promise

The Trump administration is quietly changing its narrative around gas prices as officials realize President Donald Trump's promises are unworkable, Politico reported on Wednesday. "Administration officials facing lawmakers declined to put a timetable when the war in Iran would end and the ensuing rise in energy prices would ease, instead offering vague assurances of their track record in lowering prices," said the report. "'I think the conflict will end, and I think gasoline prices will come back to where they were, or perhaps lower,' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Senate appropriators." This assessment, the report continued, is "a marked shift in rhetoric from previous public appeals asking for reassurance on energy price spikes two months after Trump launched the strikes in the Mi...