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War Delays Fuel Cuts; Trump Rejects $3 Gas Forecast

4/23/2026

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  • Officials stopped giving timelines for war’s end and fuel cuts, saying they will fall.
  • President Donald Trump called Wright’s forecast stay above $3 per gallon ‘wrong,’ noting Bessent and Wright told Senate conflict persists, $4 per gallon, no end date.
  • Bessent said Treasury extended a sanctions waiver on crude after requests from ten countries, strain, and noted Senator Lisa Murkowski’s warning that prices have panicked Alaska Native villages using shipments.