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President-elect Donald Trump announced that Chris Wright, the CEO and laminitis of Liberty Energy, volition pb the Department of Energy successful his caller administration.
"I americium thrilled to denote that Chris Wright volition beryllium joining my Administration arsenic some United States Secretary of Energy, and Member of the recently formed Council of National Energy," Trump said successful a connection released Saturday.
The newly-elected president wrote that Wright "has been a starring technologist and entrepreneur successful Energy."
"He has worked successful Nuclear, Solar, Geothermal, and Oil and Gas," Trump's connection read. "Most significantly, Chris was 1 of the pioneers who helped motorboat the American Shale Revolution that fueled American Energy Independence, and transformed the Global Energy Markets and Geopolitics."
The cardinal Cabinet presumption announcement comes aft Trump made autarkic vigor and bolstering lipid and state accumulation a cornerstone of his campaign. While connected the run trail, Trump pledged to grow fracking and assistance a intermission connected liquefied earthy state exports, which marks a crisp opposition with his predecessor.
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Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. CEO Chris Wright laughs arsenic helium celebrates the company's IPO connected the level of the New York Stock Exchange soon aft the opening doorbell successful New York. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
"They annihilated your alloy mills, decimated your ember jobs, assaulted your lipid and state jobs and sold disconnected your manufacturing jobs to China and different overseas nations each implicit the world," Trump said of the Biden medication during a run lawsuit successful Pennsylvania past month.
The president-elect has besides vowed to usage his 2nd White House term to re-exit the Paris clime accord, undo strict emissions standards for vehicles and powerfulness plants, and bolster accumulation of U.S. lipid and gas, including done fracking.
Trump's nominees and medication picks during his 2nd medication are being publically announced astatine a overmuch faster gait than during his archetypal medication successful 2016, which the modulation squad attributed to Trump's committedness to putting "America first."
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Fla. ( Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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"The American radical re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin, giving him a mandate to instrumentality the promises helium made connected the run way — and his Cabinet picks bespeak his priority to enactment America First. President Trump volition proceed to name highly qualified men and women who person the talent, acquisition and indispensable accomplishment sets to Make America Great Again," Trump-Vance modulation spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked astir Trump's speedy roll-out of Cabinet picks.
Under his archetypal administration, Trump tapped erstwhile Texas Gov. Rick Perry for the position, earlier Dan Brouillette took the presumption implicit successful 2019. Trump did not denote his prime of Perry until Dec. 14, 2016, putting him up of his archetypal term's information process.
Chris Wright, center, volition pb the Department of Energy successful Trump's caller administration. (Reuters)
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On the vigor front, Trump besides reportedly plans to instal an "energy czar" to standard backmost vigor and clime regulations implemented nether the Biden administration, and besides already named erstwhile New York Rep. Lee Zeldin arsenic his prime to pb the Environmental Protection Agency.
Fox News Digital's Breanne Deppisch and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.
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