Gas Price Data, Critics Dispute Schumer Claim Democrats Have Lowered Energy Costs

When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told journalists after the June 13 party caucus meetings that Democrats under President Joe Biden have been “lowering energy costs” for two years, none of the listening scribes challenged the New Yorker to document his claim.
Schumer’s comment about energy costs came in a series of similar cost-cutting claims he made on behalf of Democrats in Congress and the Biden administration.
“While Democrats have spent the last two years lowering energy costs, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, bringing manufacturing jobs back to our shores, Republicans are doubling down on what they do best, pushing tax giveaways to large corporations and the super, super wealthy,” Schumer said….}