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Doug Burgum: “There's 1.5, $1.5 trillion of, of capital has already been…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Interior Secretary Burgum on Iran, Venezuela, and Trump's energy endgame

Published | Video Starts at 14:41

You can get a bill done this year. Well, this is what that looks like. It's interesting when you say compromise because There's 1.5, $1.5 trillion of, of capital has already been approved by small businesses, by school districts, by states, by, by corporations in America. 1.5 trillion with a T. And it's all waiting for a permit. Our entire economy is clogged up waiting to get through this regulatory process, which has just become overly burdensome. So one of the things we're doing in the Trump administration is reducing and speed, speeding up the amount of permitting. (14:41–14:59)

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Asserts that $1.5 trillion in capital is waiting for permits in the U.S.

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