How Energy Dominance Is Powering America’s Comeback

Good afternoon CPAC. So great to be with you. We are gathered here today at a historic time and in a few hours you're going to have an opportunity to hear from a very historic president. Here's a name you probably haven't heard of, Buddy Melgis, Olympic gold medal sailor from Zenda, Wisconsin. Grew up on a small teeny little lake in Wisconsin. How did a kid from a small little lake in Wisconsin go on to become an Olympic sailor? He became an Olympic gold medal sailor because he understood you never have to recover from a great start. So I've got a few questions for you. In our entire U.S. history which president has been off to the greatest start in history? Yes, okay, I can ask that a different way. Which president in American history has had the most impact in their first 33 days? Trump! And of course we know the answer to this one. Which president right now every hour every day is making America great again? There you go. I want to say thank you all for being here. This is such an important group. You are the difference makers. CPAC was the group that believed in President Trump when others didn't. You stayed with him. You worked so hard for all these years and you were working because you supported President Trump but you were working because you cared deeply about America. You wanted America to be better. You knew that America could reach its full potential and now that is happening every single day and it started here with you. Thank you CPAC for everything that you've done. Yes, President Trump has got a very clear and a very powerful vision on ways to make America again great again and at the center of that is energy dominance. He knows that energy dominance when the U.S. is energy dominance it's going to bring down inflation because energy is a component of every single product that we buy, every piece of food you eat, every vehicle you drive. He also knows that when we have energy to sell to our friends and allies it's going to end our trade deficits. He knows it's going to create American jobs and he also knows that when we have energy to sell to our allies it's going to end it's going to end the wars abroad and he is someone who wants to stop the killing. He wants to end wars and President Trump I believe for that work is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize and so and this is a group that can help that happen for him. Yes, President Trump knows better than anyone that energy dominance is the foundation for American prosperity for affordability and world peace. The Biden administration, wow what a mess that we've inherited. The Biden administration at the core of everything they're doing were beholden to a group of climate extremists and when those climate extremists got the Biden administration to declare war on U.S. energy and when they declared war on U.S. energy it didn't reduce demand it just shifted the supply to our adversaries across the world the places like Iran. Iran who sold hundreds of billions of dollars of energy through ghost ships and front companies to fund 24 terror groups against us but President Trump wants that to stop. He's got full maximum pressure against Iran and he'll do what he did in his first term which is financially he'll bring that country or the ayatollahs not the country but the ayatollahs to their knees but back home the climate extremists that wanted to shut down U.S. energy what did they do to Americans they raised the price of everything electricity prices 30 percent higher under the Biden administration some of you if you live in the northeast you're going to be staring at 15 to 17 to 20 percent increases again this summer this is all what we've inherited and when we have high energy costs that hurts our economy and we de-industrialize and that's why President Trump on day one declared a national energy emergency it wasn't just about price at the pump he understood the mess that Biden left us and that's why he declared that energy emergency and part of that solution last Friday created the National Energy Dominance Council he asked me to chair it he asked Chris Wright to be the vice chair and with that with the work that we're going to be doing it covers everything it covers electricity it covers oil and gas it covers biofuels it covers export it covers exploration all the things that we need to do to have our country become an energy powerhouse but let's just talk a little bit about one of the things that were left and that's the in the energy emergency and that is our electrical grid in this country is absolutely in danger the climate extremists worshipped an ideology that defied physics economics and common sense they believed that that was the existential threat I will tell you that there's two existential threat that this administration believes and one was existential threat was Iran getting a nuclear weapon that would change the world and this administration working with our allies is going to make sure that doesn't happen and the second thing is the second existential threat is losing the artificial intelligence arms race to China we this country has shut down more electricity than China has opened in the last 12 months and we need electricity because electricity drives AI data centers and AI data centers manufacture intelligence and when we manufacture intelligence it's going to change every job every company every industry it's going to make the federal government more productive