By Steve Holland, Andy Sullivan, Richard Cowan and Nandita Bose
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) – Standing in front of the White House ballroom construction site, U.S. President Donald Trump appealed for patience from Americans struggling with soaring gas prices as he sought to justify the cost of a project critics call a vanity effort.
“This is peanuts,” he said on Tuesday in an apparent reference to the economic damage inflicted on the U.S. by the Iran war. “I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. It won’t be much longer.”
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The moment crystallized concerns among some in his Republican Party,
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