Franco Ordoñez

It's supposed to go into the U.S.

Treasury.

Trump is essentially saying that he is going to handle this money.

And Democrats, at least, and some members of Congress are saying that he is trying to use this money as his personal slush fund.

And that has become a significant issue.

Trump's already tried to move money around in ways and bypass Congress.

So this is another issue that is going to get a lot of scrutiny from Congress.

Clearly, this is something he has been obsessed with for so long.

His energy dominance agenda is a big part of his international as well as domestic agenda.

I mean, he's long felt that greater abundance of energy would translate, for example, into lower prices.

On the campaign, I went to so many stops with him.

Practically every single campaign,

He would talk about energy prices.

He would talk about the price of gasoline.

And he would blame inflation, the inflation that had so prevalent during the Biden years, on the price of energy.

And he felt that getting energy costs down was

Because it would lower, you know, gas prices.

Trucks would be able to haul more stuff.

Everything was, you know, kind of revolved around this.

And that's, you know, key now as well because, I mean, obviously we have the midterms later this year.