Doug Burgum
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1,008 appearances
32 recordings
11 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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All of these resources combined plus the offshore represent really an enormous amount of wealth that belongs to the American people.
The war on mining goes along with all of the climate extremism that the left has embraced going back, Obama, Biden, their whole approach was we're gonna shut down mining, we're gonna shut down oil and gas development, we're gonna shut down the use of coal, either for thermal uses like electricity or metallurgical for making steel.
We're going to shut down grazing on public lands because they were essentially, they were also anti-livestock as part of this thing. But they were most successful on mining. They really, I'm going to say, crushed the mining industry, both the extraction of these resources, but also the processing of that. China, in parallel, I'm sure were part of that from a...
I don't want to say from a SIOP standpoint, but just in the same way that Russia wanted to have all of Western Europe go green so they could become dependent on their natural gas, China was happy to have the rest of the Western world stop mining so that they could take control of the markets around these critical minerals, which we need for defense, for technology, for electronics, really for everything today in modern life depends on it.
So now in the United States, we've got to get back in the game, and under President Trump, we are. Just this last week, announcing that the resolution copper mine, this is a 30-year saga to get a mine permitted for copper in the US. It was not getting done. President Trump took it on. Three months later, we're announcing that project is beginning.
There's a capability called fast tracking where you can speed up. There have only been two mining operations in the US history that had ever been put on that list to accelerate their permitting. President Trump added 10 more mining projects last week. There's going to be dozens more in the weeks ahead that will be announced that are being added to that list. So we're getting back in the game.
But again, the Obama-Biden and that whole approach of of anti-mining has put us in a precarious situation of dependence on an adversary who is now using that as a tool in the Cold War we're in.
Well, and as a former, yes, I spent my career both in technology as a business person, but really that's what I did as governor, was continue to be a businessman. And here in government, same thing, because we've got to drive efficiency. And one of the ways that the tool that's been used to kill all of these natural resource problems industries in America has been permitting.
I mean, permitting has been just drag on, drag on years, decades, then finally a permits issue, then a lawsuit is filed, then it drags on in court. And that uncertainty has driven the capital formation out of these industries. And it's caused actually even American companies to say, well, if I'm gonna do mining, I better do it overseas. And if you really cared about the environment,
you know, the folks that are pushing these lawsuits and funding these lawsuits, if you cared about it, you'd want to have it all done here. You'd want to have everything mined in the U.S., processed in the U.S. You'd want to have every electron, every barrel of oil and gas produced here. We do it cleaner, better, safer, smarter, and healthier here in the U.S.
because when we attack these resource-based industries, we don't reduce the we just shift the supply to overseas, and then shift it to China, who might be extracting this from the DRC in the middle of Africa, and they're doing it without reclamation. They're doing it with sometimes slave labor, prisoner labor. I mean, they're doing it with no emissions control on what they're doing.
So it's worse for the global environment. It helps our adversaries. It hurts our economy. And it's horrible for national security. So it's literally 180 degrees. They're taking down a path. The Obama-Biden was taking us down a path 180 degrees in the wrong direction. President Trump is changing that because he understands that both...
Peace abroad and prosperity at home is that we have to be competitive in these natural resource industries, including the production of energy and producing critical minerals.
Well, this is a wonderful connection between two powerful presidents. Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 had the foresight and the wisdom to set aside what became known as the Roosevelt Reservation. Right, yeah.
a 60-foot strip across New Mexico, Arizona, and California, which could, at the authority of the Secretary of Interior, be transferred to the Department of Defense, in his words of the day, to stop smuggling. Well, what have we had? We've had human trafficking, smuggling. fentanyl flowing in, sort of mass invasion, mass casualties.
Well, now we have a 60-foot strip that's been transferred to the U.S. DOD. If someone sets foot on that, they're trespassing on a military installation. Now the troops that President Trump, through the border emergency, has deployed down there, they can detain someone for that trespassing until the border patrol, who's got arrest authority, can arrest them.
So this is going to help with the collaboration between the Border Patrol and the NRDOD. And I was just down there last week as part in signing the order down there on the New Mexico border. But I'm telling you, the Border Patrol, I talked to multiple people, 20 plus years, 25 years in the service.
They said they've never felt more supported in their job in doing law enforcement than they have right now under President Trump.
Well, the systems, the IT systems are so bad at the federal level that it is, It's really some days absurd. And having spent my life selling business solutions in the tech business, software solutions, then this is an area that I'm particularly interested in. But we come in with the basic questions that any business could ask. You can't get answers.
I mean, you come in and say, well, how many contracts and grants do we have and how many people are administering them? Hard to find out those numbers, but then you find out that just Interior Loan was managing 36,000 contracts and grants, and this was almost double just during the last four years during the Biden administration.
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