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{"id":27230,"date":"2026-09-21T21:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-rogers-says-iran-war-needs-to-end-quickly-amid-rising-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:35:02","slug":"mike-rogers-says-iran-war-needs-to-end-quickly-amid-rising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-rogers-says-iran-war-needs-to-end-quickly-amid-rising-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rogers says Iran war needs to \u201cend quickly\u201d amid rising prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers said Monday that the war with Iran \u201cneeds to end\u201d to bring prices down, making him the second Republican to break with the White House on the issue that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe war with Iran needs to end, and end quickly,\u201d Rogers said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeRogersForMI\/status\/2102115999025672433\" target=\"_blank\">in a video<\/a> published Monday to social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichigan families can\u2019t afford to wait,\u201d he added. \u201cHere\u2019s what we can do now: place a temporary embargo on Diesel exports. American energy should provide relief to American families first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday, Rep. Ashley Hinson, a Republican Senate candidate in Iowa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/09\/21\/congress\/hinson-breaks-from-trump-again-01086190\" target=\"_blank\">expressed similar frustrations<\/a> about the war\u2019s impact on Iowans\u2019 pocketbooks. Both Rogers and Hinson called for a suspension of the state and federal gas tax in their statements.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the midterms, GOP candidates have expressed concern about the war in the Middle East, saying it has made it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/09\/no-good-options-gops-midterm-hopes-suffer-under-energy-inflation-01065142\" target=\"_blank\">difficult for them to run on affordability<\/a>. The war with Iran, which began in February, has led to marked increases in gas and diesel prices. On Monday, regular gas was just over $4.45 per gallon, <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to AAA<\/a>; diesel prices hit a record of $6.50 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers, a former representative, is facing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the race for a Senate seat in battleground Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers said Monday that the war with Iran \u201cneeds to end\u201d to bring prices down, making him the second Republican to break with the White House on the issue that day. \u201cThe war with Iran needs to end, and end quickly,\u201d Rogers said in a video published Monday to social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}