“Pledged to remain laser-focused on bringing down the high costs hitting Arizona families, including strengthening energy independence and eliminating the federal gas tax through the end of the year.”
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Bundled promise: stay focused on lowering Arizona families' costs, "including strengthening energy independence and eliminating the federal gas tax through the end of the year." Record is mixed across the two named tactics. GAS TAX: Kelly genuinely LED the effort — he co-authored and introduced the Gas Prices Relief Act (Feb. 2022, with Sen. Hassan) to suspend the 18.4-cent federal gas tax "through the end of the year," his own stated language (Source 1, headline and Kelly quote verified verbatim). But the bill never got a floor vote, was never enacted, and the tax still exists — confirmed by the March 2026 Kelly-Blumenthal reintroduction (Source 2, quote verified verbatim) and KJZZ coverage (Source 4, headline/substance confirmed). ENERGY INDEPENDENCE / BROAD COST RELIEF: here he delivered enacted results — the Inflation Reduction Act (Source 3, headline verified verbatim) became law, boosting domestic clean-energy manufacturing and energy security and lowering energy/health costs, with Kelly credited as helping shape it. Net: real enacted delivery on the energy-independence and cost-reduction portions plus genuine-but-failed leadership on the specific gas-tax elimination = PARTIAL. Exceeds ATTEMPTED because concrete measures became law; falls short of FULL/CHAMPIONED because the headline deliverable (eliminating the federal gas tax) never happened. Confidence moderate because the PARTIAL-vs-ATTEMPTED call weighs the enacted IRA against the failed gas-tax bill.
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