President-elect Donald Trump is well situated to hit the ground running upon taking the oath of office. His experience attempting to drain the swamp in his first term should arm him for greater success in his second term.
One area where Trump made significant headway in his first term was in making America energy independent. Indeed, Trump’s policies began a domestic energy renaissance, making the U.S. energy dominant, becoming a net exporting country for the first time in 75 years.
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President Joe Biden quickly undid all this success. Playing Don Quixote in an inane, quixotic effort to control climate change, Biden reduced domestic energy production, blocked energy exports, and increased U.S. dependence on China for its energy infrastructure.
There are a number of actions Trump can enact on his own to put America back on the path to energy dominance and economic and geopolitical sovereignty. First, he could, for the second time, withdraw the U.S. from the costly, ineffective, Paris climate agreement. Once Paris is disposed of Trump can rescind all the executive orders Biden issued to comply with Paris’ demand for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as Biden’s climate and environmental justice programs. Shuttering Biden’s White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council and Advisor Council and all the programs that flowed from it, for example, would save billions of dollars in unspent funds. Trump could then attempt to claw back funds already allocated, but currently unspent under these and other Biden climate initiatives.
Trump recognizes that he cannot do everything necessary to advance U.S. energy dominance on his own, which is why he got the jump on selecting his Cabinet heads, to work in lockstep to advance his goals or furthering the freedoms and interests of Americans while improving U.S. energy security. With his choice of Lee Zeldin to run the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Department of Interior (DOI), and Chris Wright to run the Department of Energy (DOE), Trump understands picking the right Cabinet is critical to Making America Great Again. […]
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