President-Elect Donald Trump vowed Monday to “terminate” Joe Biden’s last minute executive orders, such as his new “permanent” ban on future offshore drilling, and other “money wasting hoaxes.”
Biden announced his latest executive action on Monday, to “permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo,” according to CNN.
Biden’s executive action will ban new oil and gas leasing across 625 million acres of US ocean. The ban will prevent oil companies from leasing waters for new drilling along the entire East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California, and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea.
“My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses, and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation’s energy needs,” Biden said in a statement. “It is not worth the risks.”
Trump will supposedly need the approval of Congress to undo Biden’s drilling ban.
The action, which CNN reported on Friday, invokes the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law that gives presidents broad authority to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing and development.
The law does not give presidents explicit authority to revoke the action and place federal waters back into development, meaning President-elect Donald Trump would have to get Congress to change it before he could reverse Biden’s move.
Nevertheless, in a post on Truth Social, Trump expressed confidence that his administration will be able to “terminate” Biden’s EO in short order.
“Biden is doing everything possible to make the TRANSITION as difficult as as possible, from Lawfare such as has never been seen before, to costly and ridiculous Executive Orders on the Green New Scam and other money wasting Hoaxes,” he wrote. “Fear not, these ‘Orders’ will all be terminated shortly, and we will become a Nation of Common Sense and Strength. MAGA!!!”
Meanwhile, Trump’s incoming press secretary, Karoline Leavitt wrote in a post on X, “This is a disgraceful decision designed to exact political revenge on the American people who gave President Trump a mandate to increase drilling and lower gas prices. Rest assured, Joe Biden will fail, and we will drill, baby, drill.”
Trump on Monday also told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that he would undo the ban.
“Look, it’s ridiculous. I’ll unban it immediately,” Trump said. “I have the right to unban it immediately,” he insisted. “What’s he doing, why is he doing it?”
The President-Elect added: “We have oil and gas at a level that nobody else has and we are going to take advantage of it and when I see someone say he’s gonna ban 625 million acres, he doesn’t even know what that is. He even doesn’t know what 625 million acres would look like and we can’t let that happen to our country,” Trump said. “It’s really our greatest economic asset.”
Why is he doing it? Does one ask why one is in pain after a tractor trailer runs over you?
Biden - and the Left - have one goal - destroy America; and, by doing so - destroy the ability of all individuals to act and think for themselves and be free of the type of tyranny that restricts one’s thinking, actions and autonomy as an individual.
Why? Because these are people who hate life (fear it), don’t want to have to think the thoughts they don’t want to think about that haven’t been curated by some “expert” who “respects the science” and was raised, succored on lies, lies and more lies.
Yet - still - no one who orchestrated the travesties almost innumerable over these past years has been - or likely ever will be held accountable.
Until these scum of the earth start fearing for their lives - face ten, twenty years in prison for their crimes against America and humanity there will never be any true rule of law again.
Just imagine if you or I - who aren’t politically connected - did 1/1000th of what these monsters have done deliberately with malice aforethought and gleeful delight unbounded?
We would never see the light of another free day - yet?
Yet? Pelosi, Hillary, Comey, McCabe - the list goes on and on ad nauseam - will get off scot-free.
Wake me up when and if any of them sufferers even a moment of discomfit; in the meantime - I won’t hold my breath.
No doubt CNN wants to believe Trump can’t undo Biden’s executive orders, but of course, that’s ridiculous. A President cannot insulate his orders from revocation by the next President any more than Congress can pass laws that future Congresses are not allowed to amend or repeal. There is well-settled law on these points.
On the main point, yes on ‘drill-baby-drill,’ but just as important, maybe more so, is to build several new nuclear power plants.