EXCLUSIVE — Two of President Donald Trump’s former Cabinet secretaries launched an advertising campaign on Tuesday boosting the president’s energy agenda.
“Free,” a new ad purchased by a conservative nonprofit organization launched by Trump’s former Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette and former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, will run on television and digital platforms across the country.
Brouillette’s and Bernhardt’s group, the Restoring Energy Dominance Coalition, is spending more than $1 million on the campaign, including a six-figure purchase in February.
“America freed itself from tyranny and the world from oppression. Americans dream big. Now, with President Trump, we embark on a new era of freedom, one without any foreign independence,” a narrator says in the 30-second ad over stock footage of Trump in office. “One where we power our own renewal with our own resources and depend on no one, especially our adversaries.”
“All-of-the-above energy for everything we need. Made in America for Americans. Reliable, affordable, independent. In America, our independence is our strength,” the narrator adds.
Though the president’s tariff war has injected significant volatility into domestic markets, Trump claims his economic platform and plans to ramp up American energy production will reverse inflation.
Still, some Republicans have begun to raise concerns about his policies, specifically his plans to roll back green energy tax incentives installed by former President Joe Biden.
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Trump frequently refers to Biden’s energy policies as the “green new scam,” and a group of 21 House Republicans petitioned Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and the White House to keep those tax credits in place.
“To meet President Trump’s campaign promises of bringing back manufacturing and taking energy production at home seriously, we need to look at an all-of-the-above approach to these things,” Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), who authored the letter, told the New York Times. “These credits have been helping do that.”