10 posts from Tuesday, April 8, 2025

>> We have four items prepared for your signature this afternoon, sir. The first of these executive orders is, it may be one of the most significant executive orders of your administration thus far. This directs all departments and agencies of the federal government to end all discriminatory policies against the coal industry. This ends the leasing moratorium that prevents new coal projects on federal land. And it's going to accelerate all permitting and funding for new coal projects to allow the coal industry to flourish under your leadership, sir. >> That's great, thank you. >> [APPLAUSE] >> [APPLAUSE] >> Sir, there are currently dozens of coal plants in America that are in imminent danger of being forced to close based on unscientific and unrealistic policies enacted by the Biden administration. What we're going to do is essentially impose a moratorium on those policies taking effect to protect coal plants that are currently operating to ensure that they're able to continue producing power and continue providing jobs to Americans in the coal industry. >> That's right, thank you very much. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Okay, sir, you've made grid reliability and security a key focus of this administration. This executive order is going to promote grid security and reliability by ensuring in part that our grid policies are focused on secure and effective energy production and energy transmission. As opposed to woke policies that discriminate against secure sources of power like coal and other fossil fuels. >> [APPLAUSE] >> [APPLAUSE] >> Lastly, sir, one of the biggest problems we have in this space is Democrat states, radical leftist states enacting policies and enacting an agenda that discriminates against coal, against secure sources of energy. Many of these policies are unconstitutional and illegal. And with this executive order, you're going to be instructing your Department of Justice to vigorously pursue and investigate these state policies that we believe are illegal or unconstitutional. >> Good, thank you. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you very much, great job. He went to Harvard when Harvard was good. >> [LAUGH] >> It was a while ago. >> [APPLAUSE]

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I think that right now we're managing a massive number of requests for negotiations. It's actually logistically quite challenging just to go through them. It's something that I've been spending a lot of the time this morning doing because at NSC, at NEC, what we have to do is prioritize the meetings for the president. And there are so many to go through that we're actually getting ready to present a plan for him on who and when. But yeah, he obviously prioritizes two of our closest allies at Trading Partners Japan in Korea and the word out of those conversations was really positive, and positive really for American workers, American farmers, there are a heck of a lot of concessions on the table. In the end, the president, of course, is going to be the one who decides whether the deal is good enough to change his mind about the tariffs.

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- There has been a morale shift in the last two months. I see it on these guys' face. I saw it four years ago. I saw how they were performing and just wanted to do their job. Tell me about the morale shift in your men and women because you supervise it. - Right. Well, I think that you hit it right on the head, right? Is, you know, Border Patrol agents sign up to do Border Patrol work and the fact that they're actually getting out there and going and patrolling and doing what they sign up to do. I think that makes a lot of folks in our organization very, very happy.

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