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As gas prices remain near record highs, New York has become the latest state to suspend its gas tax in an effort to give drivers some relief at the pump. The suspens stanley cup ion of the 16-cents-per-gallon tax runs from June 1 through the end of the year.The national average for a gallon of gas hit $4.62 for regular unleaded gas on May 31. Diesel gas prices hit a record high on May 18 at $5.58 per gallon, according to tracking by AAA. In New York, gas prices hit a record in late May as well at $4.93 a gallon before easing slightly.U.S. gas prices could soon top $5 a gallon, analysts sayThe climbing prices come as millions of Americans are set to hit the road on vacations over the summer for the first time in a couple of years after travel plunged during the coronavirus pandemic. AAA forecast the season would kick off with 39.2 million people traveling over the Memorial Day weekend, up from last year and just below pre-pandemic levels. European Unio stanley vaso n leaders on Monday agreed to ban the vast majority of Russian oil imports into the bloc by the end of the year as part of the ongoing effort to cut ties with Russia and inflict financial pain for the country s invasion of Ukraine. But even before the invasion, gas prices were on the ri stanley thermos mug se as demand increased with pandemic related restrictions easing.At the federal level, the Biden administration at the end of March announced the release of one million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Res Teyo Lawmakers condemn Trump order on refugees, citizens from Muslim nations
President Bush added Medicare to the government s fix-it list Wednesday after new figures showed the first full dec stanley cup price ade of the program s prescription benefit will cost taxpayers $724 billion. There s no question that there is an unfunded liability inherent in Medicare that Congress and the administration is going to have to deal with over time, Bush told reporters. Obviously I ve chosen to deal with Social Security first, he added. Once we modernize and save Social Security for a young generation of Americans, then it ll be time to deal with the unfunded liabilities of Medicare. CBS John Roberts reports that Democrats want to re-open the bill - and chang stanley termosy e it to allow Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices. And even some Republicans who d worried about the financial burden of an enormous new entitlement seemed stunned by the new estimate. We received $400 billion dol stanley quencher lar estimates, Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine said. So now what is driving these issues we have to know. However, White House officials say the new estimate isn t a surprise mdash; because it s for a period two years farther down the road, when the drug benefit has been fully phased in. Our estimates of the cost of the medicare prescription drug benefit are the same as they were before, Mark McLellan, of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told Roberts. Now we re into 2005 so we re looking further into the future. The new figure for ye
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