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Not everyone is opposed to the deal. Republican Thomas Massie, who has sparred with Trump a number of issues, said the US should lift sanctions on all petroleum products.
Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News the agreement would work through existing legal channels the US has to help bring prices down and that anyone in Congress who said it would not was wrong.
Global fuel prices have soared since the US-Israel war with Iran began at the end of February, with the fighting severely disrupting supplies of crude oil - a key ingredient in petrol and diesel.
The rising prices have become a key issue for Americans ahead of next month's midterms elections, which will determine if Trump's Republican Party maintains control of Congress.
Polls show a majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy and the war in Iran and he has been searching for ways to ease his party's political pain.
The toll the war is taking has been acutely felt by US agricultural states, which rely heavily on diesel to operate farming machinery and to transport their products to market.
The average diesel price in the US is currently $6.28 (£4.74) a gallon, according to the AAA, down from the record high of $6.53 recorded at the end of September.
Analysts have questioned whether Russia is capable of providing that quantity of diesel and the extent to which doing so will ease prices for American consumers.
The US uses approximately 3.6 million barrels of diesel a day, so even if Russia delivers its promised 300,000 tonnes this month, it amounts to approximately half of the US daily consumption.
It is not only at home that Trump is facing opposition to his diesel deal with Russia. A number of international leaders have criticised it, including Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting, who said the US and other allies of Ukraine should focus on ramping up pressure on Russia to end the war.
Meanwhile, Trump announced in Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had reached an "energy ceasefire" but did not give more details. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed this but there was no response from Moscow.