Biden’s proposed ‘gas tax holiday’ runs into opposition

Joe Biden’s call for Congress to suspend the federal tax on petrol and diesel for three months ran into swift opposition in a blow to the president’s efforts to provide some temporary relief to American households grappling with high inflation.

The so-called gas tax holiday proposed by the US president would involve scrapping the 18.4 cent federal levy on every gallon of petrol and the 24 cent levy on diesel that consumers pay at…