A modern economy cannot function on a permitting system designed for another era. At a moment when the United States is competing for industrial dominance, energy security, and technological leadership, fixing America’s broken permitting process is a generational opportunity. If President Trump succeeds in delivering comprehensive permitting reform, it would stand as one of the most consequential structural economic achievements in modern American history, giving my home state of Ohio an opportunity at the center.

Leaders across the aisle have acknowledged that the federal permitting processes are slow and vulnerable to endless delays. Yet few have been willing to confront the never-ending dysfunction by keeping critical energy and manufacturing projects tied up for years. The Trump administration promised Americans affordable, reliable, domestic energy. Delivering permitting reform would transform that promise into a lasting legacy. By achieving meaningful reform, it would modernize the backbone of American growth. A clear signal would be sent to investors, manufacturers, and energy producers that the United States is serious about building again.

Nowhere is the urgency clearer than in Ohio, a state at the center of America’s industrial resurgence. In Ohio, households are experiencing rapidly rising utility bills as businesses........

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