If confirmed, Rollins will also oversee the country’s largest anti-hunger program, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It provides food aid benefits to more than 40 million low-income Americans and Republicans are eyeing ways to rein in future spending on the program as part of a major 2025 reconciliation package, as POLITICO has reported. She...
Donald Trump is looking to revive the Keystone XL oil pipeline on his first day back in the White House, according to three people familiar with the president-elect’s plan, even though no companies are trying to build it anymore. Trump believes declaring the 1,200-mile Canada-to-Nebraska crude project back on the table would drive the pro-oil...
President-elect Donald Trump is putting Doug Burgum at the center of his incoming administration’s energy initiatives, naming his nominee to head the Interior Department to a czar role that will coordinate a push across the federal government to rev up energy production. In his new position, Burgum will lead a new National Energy Council, which...
Exxon Mobil Chair and CEO Darren Woods urged the incoming Trump administration to avoid making turbulent climate policy swings — and he pushed the president-elect to reject carbon border taxes favored by some GOP lawmakers. In an interview with POLITICO, Woods signaled that one of the most powerful players in the energy industry might serve...
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