Minutes into U.S. President Donald Trump＊s State of the Union address laying out his argument for why voters should keep Republicans in power in November＊s midterm elections, the president boasted that falling gasoline prices had solved a ※disaster§ left behind by his predecessor.
Two weeks later, gas prices have risen by nearly 60 cents a gallon, part of a burgeoning energy crisis that began when Trump and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran on Feb. 28 and set off a regional conflict that has expanded well beyond Iran＊s borders.
The pain at the pump is quickly turning into a political headache for Trump and his fellow Republicans, whose narrow congressional majority looks increasingly fragile ahead of the midterms.
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