MSNBC guest tells Americans to 'calm down and back off' about high gas prices



An MSNBC guest demanded that many Americans stop complaining about high gas prices because many others are doing far worse economically.

Errin Haines made the comments talking about a proposed gas tax holiday with Chris Jansing on her MSNBC show Wednesday.

"You know, I'm just gonna say this and if I get banged for it, I don't care," said the editor-at-large of 19News.

"There is a great deal of Americans where it is uncomfortable that they're spending more, but they are not gonna go under. You've got to stop complaining when there's so many people who literally, the inflation rate means they may only have two meals instead of three," Haines continued.

"There are Americans who did extremely well in last two years in the market. You still have your job. And yeah, it's costing you more for gas, but guess what, you still gonna take that holiday, that Fourth of July vacation, you could till gonna eat out," Haines added.

"So I'm gonna need you to calm down and back off," she said.

"Because it feeds into this fear, and this fear feeds into people making decisions that creates the very thing that they are fearful of!" she concluded.

President Joe Biden was to call for a gas tax holiday in order to provide some relief to Americans at the pump, but economists and others criticized the relatively infinitesimal effect of the policy.

“A federal gas tax suspension alone won’t fix the problem we face, but it will provide families a little breathing room as we continue working to bring down prices for the long haul,” said a senior administration official about the proposal.

Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia heavily criticized the plan, signaling that it would not have enough support in the U.S. Senate to defeat Republican opposition.

On Tuesday, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods predicted that the global gas market would continue to stay "tight" and result in high gasoline prices for years.

"How that manifests itself in price will obviously be a big function of demand, which is difficult to predict," he added.

Here's the video of Haines' comments on MSNBC:

\u201cMSNBC guest: "There is a great deal of Americans where it is uncomfortable that they're spending more, but they are not gonna go under. You've got to stop complaining ... you still have your job ... so I'm gonna need you to calm down and back off."\u201d
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Joe Manchin signals that he's going to spoil Biden's plan for a gas tax holiday



Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia yet again signaled that he was going to thwart President Joe Biden's plans after he commented on the president's proposal for a gas tax holiday.

Biden and his party have suffered increasingly bad polling as the price of gasoline continues to climb. On Wednesday, the president proposed to implement a gas tax holiday to offer Americans some small sense of relief.

Manchin said that he was not supportive of the plan.

"I'm not a yes right now, that's for sure," Manchin said to ABC News hours ahead of a scheduled announcement by the president.

Manchin said that the gas tax holiday would result in far less revenue for the Highway Trust Fund that pays to fix roads, bridges, and highways.

"Now, to do that and put another hole into the budget is something that is very concerning to me, and people need to understand that 18 cents is not going to be straight across the board," Manchin explained. "It never has been that you'll see in 18 cents exactly penny-for-penny come off of that price."

Manchin said that he and others also took issue with the timing of Biden's proposal.

"My other would be the political ramification. It goes off at the end of September. Which politician up here is going to be voting to put that 18-cent tax back on a month before the November election?" added Manchin.

"So, we just dig the whole deeper and deeper and deeper," he concluded.

Manchin trampled on Biden's new plan by referring back to the inflationary consequences of the massive pandemic relief legislation he passed.

"We put over $5 trillion out into the marketplace and it's all forgotten and all we have now is higher inflation and really more hardship on people that need some good decisions here in the Congress," Manchin continued. We just need to start looking at the long-term effect of what we are doing and how we are doing it."

Republicans have voiced their opposition to the plan, meaning it is unlikely to pass the Senate without the full support of all Democrats. Some called it a "gimmick" while others said it would likely lead to higher prices later.

Democrats and far-left progressives have excoriated Manchin for tanking their spending plans, but many economists believe further massive spending would have made inflation even worse.

Here's the interview with Manchin:

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