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Scott Bessent: “Export facilities were stopped in the Biden administration.”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 15:42

… the U.S. is an energy superpower thanks to President Trump's policies in the first term, now in the second term. And the only thing that is constraining us are the Export facilities were stopped in the Biden administration. And as we create more LNG facilities, we will be able to supply the world with safe American energy. And I think everyone's going to want to diversify away from the Gulf a bit. (15:42–15:52)

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Asserts that the Biden administration halted the development of export facilities.

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