White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to Fox News on Sunday to defend rising petrol prices in the United States, framing the post-Iran-strike surge as a necessary and temporary cost of war — and predicting it would ultimately prove 'a good thing' for global energy markets. The remarks came as Americans found themselves paying significantly more at the pump than just a week prior, drawing fresh scrutiny over the administration's messaging on affordability.
Leavitt told 'Sunday Morning Futures' that the current situation is 'a short-term disruption for the long-term gain of taking out the rogue Iranian terrorist regime and finally ending their restriction of the free flow of energy in the Middle East and in the Strait of Hormuz.' She insisted that prices would recover, pointing to what she described as President Trump's broader 'American energy dominance agenda' as the mechanism that would bring them back down.
