Democrats can’t lower gas prices by handing Hormuz to Iran

Democrats ran on a promise to make life more affordable for voters, but one of their top priorities after the election would drive energy prices higher. Moreover, their first opportunity to act on this priority will come well before the new Congress is sworn in.

“The war must end,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the day after the election. “We are going to end the war.” Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has been even more specific about how Democrats plan to do it. “I think we deal with the funding and we use that to end the war,” Gallego said last week. “I think that’s the strongest thing we could do.”