The API, which counts oil majors ExxonMobil and Chevron as members, helped put together the meeting. "We appreciate the opportunity to discuss how American oil and natural gas is driving economic growth, strengthening our national security and supporting consumers with the President and his team,"...
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss President Trump's meeting with top U.S. oil executives, the Trump administration's plans to boost domestic energy production, reversing LNG export ban, state of Chevron's Venezuela oil license, unl...
2. FOR YOUR RADAR: House Oversight Committee Democrats are “launching an investigation into Donald Trump’s meeting with oil executives last month at his Mar-a-Lago Club, where the former president asked the executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign and promised to reverse dozens of...
House Speaker Mike Johnson said “big decisions” were made in Wednesday’s White House meeting with President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on the budget resolution. The president will “announce all that later,” Johnson added. Returning from the White House Wednesday, John...
Trump’s Cabinet: In a sign of the changes coming with the next administration, Trump has chosen a fracking CEO, Chris Wright, to be his energy secretary, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a conservative with close ties with oil executives, as interior secretary. 6:10 a.m. 7:08:18...
On June 13, during a meeting with some of the nation’s leading chief executives, Trump said he planned to cut the corporate tax from its current 21% rate to 20%. In Trump’s first term, he slashed the rate from 35% to 21%. What experts say: Extend 2017 tax cuts permanently. The...
Trump will meet Wednesday afternoon with Gavin Newsom while the California governor is in Washington, according to the White House. The meeting was confirmed Tuesday by a White House official who was not authorized to speak publicly. Trump has long sparred with the Democrat but t...
Other executives have ties to Burgum Hamm is not the only oil executive or lobbyist who has cultivated ties with Burgum. Ryan Berger, a lobbyist for Occidental Petroleum, emailed Burgum’s staff last year seeking a meeting for Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub. ...
Hamm has encouraged other oil executives to share their policy priorities with Trump as well. Trump and Hamm have also bonded over their shared dislike of wind energy, according to people familiar with the matter. In addition, Hamm wants close ties with a potential second Trump administration,...
As an example, Trump said Monday that in an earlier meeting with Kennedy,CMS nominee Mehmet Ozand pharmaceutical executives spent more time on drug costs than anything else. On that front, the president-elect said he would target pharmaceutical “middlemen,” the shorthand policymakers have used ...