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Chris Wright: “It took years, right?”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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The AI Race: Why the Future of Power Is at Stake with U.S. Energy Secretary, Chris Wright

Published | Video Starts at 18:47

There's a long process for that and they're two separate processes. And there were years. It took years, right? Years. And it just, look, it was just a system designed for a different time. And so when President Trump came in and said let's just get rid of that nonsense, simplify it now. (18:47–18:49)

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Asserts that the process to file for electricity production took years.

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