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AttemptedTaxes and cost of living

Suspend Nevada's state motor vehicle fuel (gas) tax for 12 months, which he estimated would save consumers and businesses about $250 million.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 92%

Both cited sources are reachable and directly document THIS promise and THIS outcome. Fox5 Vegas confirms Lombardo introduced SB502 to suspend Nevada's state motor vehicle fuel tax for 12 months with an estimated ~$250M savings, that the bill "never got a hearing," and carries the verbatim spokesperson quote "Democrats refused to even hear the bill. Democrats made it clear that they were not interested in providing tax relief." News3LV confirms the gas tax holiday was included in SB502 (the Taxpayer Inflation Relief Act), that "Democrats never gave the bill a hearing," the ~$250M estimate, and verbatim that "Under Nevada law, the Governor doesn't have unilateral authority to suspend the tax, so he had to go through the Legislature." This establishes a genuine attempt: Lombardo could not act unilaterally, so he turned the promise into legislation, and it failed through the normal legislative process when the opposition majority declined to hear it. No suspension was enacted (rules out FULL/PARTIAL); there was no success to have led (rules out CHAMPIONED); and he did act rather than drop it (rules out IGNORED/ABSTAINED/NO_OPPORTUNITY). ATTEMPTED is correct and does not overstate the evidence. The rating's cited quotes are lightly compressed paraphrases of the article text, but the load-bearing fragments (the Democrats quote, the no-hearing statement, the no-unilateral-authority statement, the $250M figure) all appear verbatim.

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