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John Thune: “The Biden administration, when they took power, in addition…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Interview with Senator Thune on Supreme Court Nominee and Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Published | Video Starts at 07:56

And I think one of the big lessons that hopefully will come out of this is don't disarm when it comes to energy production. And that's what we've done. I mean, The Biden administration, when they took power, in addition to killing Keystone XL, has taken lots of areas out of production. And so, you know, we have enormous resources here in the United States. They have been so bent on their climate agenda, on their green agenda, on, you know, pushing everybody into electric vehicles to the exclusion of liquid fuels. (07:56–08:03)

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Asserts that the Biden administration has removed many areas from energy production.

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