Psaki spars with Peter Doocy over rising gas prices

Published March 7, 2022 10:26pm ET



White House press secretary Jen Psaki squared off with her regular sparring partner, Fox News’s Peter Doocy, on Monday as she sought to defend the Biden administration’s response to the increase in domestic gas prices, which spiked this week to their highest point since 2008.

Biden’s message is that he’s “going to do everything we can, everything he can, to reduce the impact on the American people, including the price of gas at the tank,” Psaki said at the start of Monday’s briefing, noting that the White House agreed last week on the “historic” release of 30 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve in coordination with 30 allied countries and the International Energy Agency.

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