Staff Reports
America is finally getting an honest energy policy again, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is bluntly calling it historic — because it is. The Department of the Interior under this administration is moving to unlock offshore and onshore resources, streamline permitting, and drive investments that keep energy bills lower for working families while strengthening American sovereignty.
Burgum has been clear with industry: the companies that produce energy on federal lands are customers, not enemies, and Washington’s role is to get out of the way so they can do their jobs. That approach — treating producers as partners and cutting red tape — will unleash jobs in mining, drilling, and manufacturing and put more money back into Americans’ pockets.
The left and their media cheerleaders howl when regulations are trimmed, calling emergency measures “fake” and predicting environmental ruin, but those scare tactics ignore the real cost of energy shortages to families and national security. Accelerated permitting and a focus on domestic production are commonsense responses to a world where hostile regimes still control vast supplies of oil and critical minerals.
Burgum has also been unafraid to call out renewables’ limits and to defend baseload power — including coal and nuclear — as essential to keeping the grid stable for industry and national defense. That realism on energy reliability is not alarmism; it’s stewardship. Ensuring reliable baseload power safeguards our digital economy and keeps America competitive in the global race for AI and advanced manufacturing.
This is not just rhetoric. The Interior Department is pointing to concrete projects and an uptick in offshore activity that will add supply and reduce price pressure on families. Royalties and lease revenues from responsible development can help improve the federal balance sheet and support communities that have been left behind by coastal elites who never value working-country prosperity.
Of course, Democrats predictably oppose these moves, framing energy abundance as a political sin instead of a strategic necessity, but Republicans in the Senate and industry leaders understand what’s at stake. The confirmation fights and budget battles only reveal how out of step the left is with everyday Americans who want affordable, reliable energy and good-paying jobs in the heartland.
Hardworking Americans should thank leaders who put national interest and economic common sense ahead of ideology, and they should stay vigilant against the regulatory reflex that would choke off the very prosperity we need. Doug Burgum and the Trump administration are rebuilding American energy strength — and history will remember who chose to power the nation, not punish it.
