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Doug Burgum: “There's over a trillion and a half dollars with a T of…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:38

It's not because we don't have the technology. It's not because we don't have the people. It's because our own regulations and red tape. We're choking our own economy. There's over a trillion and a half dollars with a T of capital that's been approved by, by companies, by board of directors that is ready, by states that is ready to be deployed into our economy that can't move forward because of a permitting delay. Fixing permitting would unleash capital and move this country forward and, and help accelerate the golden age that we're heading into. (06:38–06:54)

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Asserts that over $1.5 trillion in capital is stalled due to permitting delays.

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