By Bradley Jaye
Senate Democrats are moving Wednesday to block Trump’s national energy emergency in a gesture of opposition to the president’s actions to lower energy prices and deliver on a key campaign pledge.
“During his campaign, President Trump emphasized the connection between a robust energy economy and getting inflation under control further,” Lummis told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “It creates jobs, it creates energy in the country that is best able to produce clean energy, and that’s the United States.”
On his first day in office, Trump declared a national energy emergency to unleash American energy production after energy prices skyrocketed under former President Joe Biden. Biden moved to halt oil and natural gas leases, banned offshore drilling, and sought to require a majority of new cars sold in the U.S. to be electric vehicles or hybrids by 2032, Breitbart News’ Sean Moran reported.
The burden hit all Americans, especially those in Lummis’s home state – “Wyoming exports 12 times more energy than it consumes,” Lummis emphasized. But Trump’s designation of a national energy emergency is both increasing energy availability and lowering costs as well as furthering clean energy efforts.