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← Diesel Hits a Record $6.51 and Farm-State Republicans Tell Trump to Stop Exporting It — Chuck Grassley Posts That Prices "ARE KILLING FARMERS INCOME," Trump-Backed Senate Nominees in Iowa and Michigan Say the Iran War "Needs to End," John Cornyn Calls a Ban "a Gimmick," and Trump Says "I've Called for It Within My People"
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Mike Rogers
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Republican Nominee for U.S. Senate (MI)
Sep 21, 2026
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The war in Iran needs to end to bring costs down — but Michigan families can't afford to wait. [In a campaign video filmed in a grocery store, Rogers called for suspending state and federal gas taxes of about 70 cents a gallon and for a temporary embargo on U.S. diesel exports until the war is over.]

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Diesel Hits a Record $6.51 and Farm-State Republicans Tell Trump to Stop Exporting It — Chuck Grassley Posts That Prices "ARE KILLING FARMERS INCOME," Trump-Backed Senate Nominees in Iowa and Michigan Say the Iran War "Needs to End," John Cornyn Calls a Ban "a Gimmick," and Trump Says "I've Called for It Within My People" →

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