When Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said President Trump’s energy moves will go down in the history books, he wasn’t doing political theater — he was telling the truth about a deliberate plan to restore American strength and bring relief to working families. Burgum’s blunt assessment underscores what patriots already know: energy independence is not a partisan talking point, it is the foundation of affordable living and national security.
This administration is finally taking aim at the permitting nightmare that has strangled development for decades, and Burgum has led the charge to fix it by reforming NEPA and cutting bureaucratic red tape that has turned common-sense projects into endless lawsuits and delays. Cutting through that web of obstruction frees American workers and investors to build pipelines, ports, and power that bring prices down and jobs up.
Those reforms are already producing results in the offshore sector, where the Interior Department reports historic growth in production and new projects coming online that will boost supply for American consumers. Record investment in the Gulf and projects like the Shenandoah development are the sort of practical energy wins that translate into lower bills at the pump and more stable heating costs for families.
Burgum has been crystal clear that Trump’s energy diplomacy — from re-engaging the Western Hemisphere to leveraging resources in places like Venezuela and Greenland — is a strategic masterstroke that shifts geopolitical power back toward American allies and away from hostile regimes. This is real statecraft, not virtue-signaling, and it protects our people by reducing dependence on unfriendly suppliers.
Yes, the president paused certain offshore wind authorizations and questioned the economics of heavily subsidized projects, and that was the right call for commonsense stewardship of taxpayer dollars and grid reliability. Americans don’t want subsidies that enrich campaign donors while making electricity unstable and expensive; they want energy that is affordable, reliable, and produced under American rules.
Predictably, the usual environmental fanatics and bureaucrats howl about rollbacks and “emergencies,” but their reflexive panic ignores the reality that secure, abundant energy lowers costs for every family and strengthens our military posture. Conservatives should be proud that this administration is putting American workers and consumers first, reclaiming our energy future, and refusing to let ideological crusades sabotage the prosperity of ordinary Americans.
