Mike Waltz joins GOP chorus blaming Russia-Ukraine War for high energy prices

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz joined a series of Trump administration officials who have blamed the Russia-Ukraine War for high diesel prices, pivoting the energy markets conversation away from the war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

“What we’re seeing in the war in Ukraine is that it is spreading to the global economy, and it’s all the more reason that the president wants the war to stop,” Waltz said on Fox News’s Fox News Live.

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