Drill, Mine, Build: Inside Trump’s Energy Revolution
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What is the goal of Trump's Energy Revolution?
President Trump vowed to make America energy independent and reduce our reliance on foreign oil, gas, and minerals. And the man tasked with making that plan a reality is Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips spent the day with Burgum, who touched on everything from energy independence to illegal immigration and the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. In this episode, we bring you that full interview.
I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Saturday, May 3rd, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
All right, we're now joined by Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Secretary, thanks for being here.
Cabot, wonderful to be with you. Thanks, and so fun to be in studio here with you as well.
What is the role of the Interior Department?
This is awesome. We were up in Mammoth Cave earlier, spelunking, doing some cave diving. Yeah, literally, I couldn't really recognize you. It was the first time I've seen you outside of a cave. Yeah, that's why we look so pale, because we weren't getting any natural light. For our audience who might not be aware, what does the Interior Department encompass? Walk us through your role there.
Well, it's an incredible department because of the scope and the breadth that it has. It covers 14 time zones. One way to think about the Department of Interior is the Department of Everything. Or another way to think about it is really the heart of America's balance sheet. There's 500 million acres of land, 700 million acres of subsurface. 2.5 billion of offshore and it covers from the US Virgin Islands to American Samoa. It's got in some states more than 50% of the lands in those states are public lands. So think Bureau of Land Management, think US National Parks, think Bureau of Indian Affairs where we hold land and trust for over 500 tribes. Think about US Fish and Wildlife. All of these resources combined plus the offshore represent really an enormous amount of wealth that belongs to the American people.
Now, I want to talk about some of your efforts on mining. You've described the war on mining that's been taking place in this country under the last administration. China recently halted the export of a number of rare earth minerals. You're now pushing to make America less dependent on China and to open up America's mining of those minerals. Talk to us about those efforts.
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.
How is America addressing its mining dependency?
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.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the goal of Trump's Energy Revolution?
0:02–0:45
2
What is the role of the Interior Department?
0:45–2:35
3
How is America addressing its mining dependency?
2:35–7:02
4
What are the effects of deregulation in the mining industry?
7:02–11:25
5
How does the transfer of federal lands improve border security?
11:25–15:52
6
What inefficiencies exist in the Interior Department?
15:52–19:04
Speakers
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