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🗓️ 23 January 2025
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0:00.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the Daily. |
0:11.5 | Among the many plans that Donald Trump laid out on his first day as president was a directive to abandon the shift toward clean energy and double down on oil. |
0:22.7 | Today, my colleague Coral Davenport on whether Trump can pull it off and what it would mean for the country if he did. |
0:35.9 | It's Thursday, January 23rd. |
0:42.6 | So, Coral, we're taking a close look this week at the most important parts of Trump's agenda so far. |
0:49.8 | He laid them out with a whole series of executive orders on the first day of his presidency. |
0:55.1 | For Wednesday's show, we looked at measures related to immigration, but today we wanted to look at his efforts on energy policy, which is obviously hugely important for the U.S. economy, but also for the climate. |
1:06.5 | You are digging into this in your reporting. |
1:09.7 | Explain what Trump did this week. |
1:11.8 | So within hours of inauguration, Trump signed this flurry of executive orders touching all kinds of pieces of policy. |
1:21.5 | There were about six executive orders specifically related to energy. |
1:27.1 | But within them, some of those orders had |
1:30.1 | more than a dozen different policies. And if you look at all of these added up together, |
1:36.6 | they very clearly realized Trump's vision, which he has expressed forcefully throughout his campaign |
1:43.4 | of an American economy driven and centered on unleashing new forces of fossil fuels, more energy, more gas, more coal, more drilling, more mining, more use of those fossil fuels. That is the core driver of the American economy and of revenue and of what he |
2:05.2 | sees as American dominance. Thank you very, very much. So you heard him on Monday during his |
2:13.5 | inaugural speech saying that we will drill baby drill drill drill |
2:18.7 | America will be a manufacturing nation once again and we have something |
2:24.9 | that no other manufacturing nation will ever have the largest amount of oil and |
2:29.6 | gas of any country on earth and very aggressively slamming the brakes on clean energy. |
2:36.4 | With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal, |
2:39.6 | and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, |
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