A top Republican senator has urged President Donald Trump to impose an embargo on diesel exports as the price of the fuel hit a record high on Monday morning.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), head of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, called on the Trump administration to use the embargo to address the high fuel prices faced by farmers.
He asked on X, “Why doesn’t [President] Trump put an embargo on diesel exports like presidents in the ‘70s put embargoes on [agriculture] products [because] food prices were inflated,” Grassley said in the social media post on Saturday night.
“High diesel prices are killing farmers’ income.”…