During a speech at an America First Policy Institute Gala at Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Trump announced he has picked North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to serve as secretary of the interior.

During his first remarks after being elected Senate Majority Leader, Senator John Thune declared that a top mission of elected Republicans would be to "restore American energy dominance." In making this promise, Majority Leader Thune put his full support behind the number one goal of President Donald Trump’s energy agenda.

President Trump has always been driven by an ambitious goal to make America energy dominant in the world in order to drive down prices for consumers and manufacturers at home and to increase exports of American energy abroad. On the threshold of his second term, Trump has outlined a detailed policy agenda to make that happen.

The first step is fossil fuel deregulation. Trump has vowed to increase permitting for oil and gas extraction, greenlight construction of energy infrastructure from pipelines to refineries to shipping terminals, and reverse President Joe Biden’s power plant rule, which would force most of America’s legacy power plants to shut down.

LEAVE THE OIL TO ME: TRUMP VOWS TO UNLEASH US ENERGY, UNDO KEY BIDEN RULES IN SECOND TERM

However, Trump doesn’t – and has never – focused on fossil fuels alone. Trump’s first administration not only unleashed oil, but also helped finance the first new nuclear reactors built by the United States in over 30 years, supported small modular reactors (SMRs) and........

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