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Trump’s energy ‘dream team’: Chris Wright and Doug Burgum’s potential to-do list

President-elect Trump has tapped two energy czars to oversee the expansion of American energy in his second term, and the industry has already handed the incoming administration and Congress a wish list of what they would like to see as the top priorities of leadership’s agenda.

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Yoder: How Republicans (sometimes) get on board with climate action

As President-elect Donald Trump gears up for his second term in January, things might appear bleak for those who want to see the United States tackle climate change. Trump has promised to expand fossil fuel production and undo much of President Joe Biden’s climate agenda, saying he would roll back environmental regulations, cut federal support for clean energy, and withdraw from the Paris climate agreement — again.

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‘Like Tiananmen square’: Denver mayor vows city police, population will forcibly resist Trump deportation measures

Democrat Denver Mayor Mike Johnston vowed that his city’s police and population would resist President-elect Donald Trump’s deportation agenda in an interview Tuesday with the Denverite while comparing Trump and federal deportations to the Chinese Communist Party. 

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Musk and Ramaswamy: The DOGE plan to reform government

Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections.

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Wray and Mayorkas provoke Senate fury after they bail on annual public hearing on threats

Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of both parties have voiced their anger at FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for declining to appear for their annual threat assessment public hearing.

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