House Speaker Mike Johnson will highlight the early victory of Republicans overturning the Biden administration’s anti-energy policy during President Donald Trump’s joint speech to Congress on Tuesday evening.
Johnson invited many guests to the president’s address, including the Commonwealth Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), chairman, whose private equity company has a majority ownership of the energy infrastructure facilities overseeing LNG facilities in his hometown of Louisiana. Johnson’s invitation to energy investors comes after President Donald Trump It was lifted The Biden administration is a suspension over LNG exports to countries without a free trade agreement with the United States, which was widely praised by GOP lawmakers and energy producers. (Related: Trump EPA introduces the $20 billion Biden Slash Fund to its agency’s internal watchdog)
Dell’s Commonwealth LNG project was the first applicant to be granted permission from Energy Secretary Chris Wright for a new LNG project, and is a well-known example of Republicans who took action to promote domestic energy production, where former President Joe Biden tried to curb “all government.” approach Addressing climate change.
“I’m happy that Ben participated in President Trump’s speech on Tuesday evening,” Johnson told the Daily Callenor News Foundation in an exclusive statement. “After years of President Biden’s war with American energy, President Trump ended it and allowed energy producers like Federal LNG in Louisiana to do their job.”
“I worked tirelessly to ensure that the Commonwealth was approved for the first LNG terminal following Biden’s disastrous LNG ban,” Johnson continued. “President Trump has sent a clear message: he will restore America’s energy control.”
Welcome preparations are underway @potus For his joint speech to Congress tomorrow night. It’ll grow bigger! pic.twitter.com/n9d96afdh6
– Speaker Mike Johnson (@speakerjohnson) March 3, 2025
Trump will give a joint speech to Congress on Tuesday evening, highlighting the administration’s victory on border security, foreign policy and domestic energy production. The president’s speech is called “American Dream Update.”
WASHINGTON, DC – February 14: US President Donald Trump, (LR) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lieseldin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Transport Secretary Shawn Duffy speak before signing an executive order establishing an Energy Control Council, led by the Secretary of the Interior of Doug Burgum, Oval in the in-o burgum in the in-o wash in-fbs. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“Commonwealth LNG is developing cutting-edge LNG export facilities that will help unleash American energy and strengthen security in our allies while prioritizing environmental management and creating lasting value for our communities,” Dell told DCNF in a statement. “The Commonwealth Export Facility is expected to unlock an estimated $3.5 billion in investments in Louisiana, nearly $1 billion in taxes and an estimated $3.5 billion in US annual export revenue.”
The export terminal project is A new name has been given The Gulf of America, near the Louisiana community in Cameron. The company expects LNG production from the project to begin exporting in 2029, going to European and Asian markets.
“President Trump outlines a bold agenda to unleash American energy control and restores regular orders for US LNG export licences is important to satisfy this commitment to Americans,” Wright said. I said On February 14th, we will announce new export approvals for the Commonwealth LNG project.
Johnson praise The Trump administration’s decision to quickly recover new LNG exports to Europe and Asia on January 20th. Biden’s LNG export approval freeze freeze made HIT LNG exporters particularly difficult in his hometown of Louisiana.
Biden’s Department of Energy suspended approval of a new LNG export license in January 2024, citing concerns about the impact of LNG export emissions.
The Biden administration has taken various other enforcement measures to undermine domestic energy production, including issuing strict regulations on coal-fired power plants, banning offshore drilling in certain U.S. waters, and significantly reducing the amount of oil and gas leases on federal land. Biden also defended green energy and electric vehicles through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
The former president’s move to suspend approvals for LNG exports to European and Asian markets has infuriated Republican lawmakers for touting the economic interests of American LNG exports and its role in strengthening the energy security of US allies.
Johnson I said The January Free Press only found out that during a private meeting in the oval office he asked Biden about his administration’s decision to suspend LNG exports in January 2024, that the former president didn’t know he had signed.
Johnson also invited White House border border Tom Homan, Hamas hostage survivor Noah Argamani and conservative commentators Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh to speak Trump’s speech.
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