Interior Secretary Doug Burgum discusses 'delivering prosperity at home' and 'peace abroad' on 'America Reports.'

There’s a battle to define a narrative about what’s to blame for rising electricity prices. Some claim higher electricity prices are due to President Donald Trump’s "one big beautiful bill," which curtailed subsidies for "cheap" wind and solar installations. Others blame AI’s rapidly expanding appetite for electricity, while some blame inflation. None of these charges hold up under scrutiny.

But shifting blame, usually with the help of a complicit media, helps with the only thing that matters to most politicians: seizing political power.  

This is readily seen in California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s trip to Belém, Brazil, to rub elbows with the global elite at the U.N.’s COP30 global climate conference on Nov. 11. Newsom, an all-but-declared candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028, slammed the Trump administration for not attending the confab, accusing the president of "handing the future to China," presumably in the category of selling solar panels embedded with secret kill switches. 

Newsom went on to say that "We’re not turning backwards to the failed policies of the past — California is fighting for a clean-energy future, even as President Trump bends the knee to his Gulf-State patrons and takes a nap as the world burns." Newsom also claimed that California is now operating its grid on "two-thirds clean energy," with California operating on 100% non-fossil-fuel energy for at least part of the day nine out of 10 days this year.

NEWSOM CLAIMS TRUMP IS ‘HANDING THE FUTURE TO CHINA’ AT BRAZILIAN CLIMATE CONFAB THAT WH SKIPPED  

Solar power energy microgrid in California, as part of that state's green energy push. (Photo by SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

But California now has the

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