President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night declaring a national energy emergency. In another order, he said he “unleashed American energy.”
Trump announced the orders earlier in the day during his Inauguration Speech.
“We will drill baby drill,” Trump said. “We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top, and export American energy all over the world. We will be a rich nation again and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it.”
It was one of many executive orders the president signed on his first day in office.
In an earlier signing of executive orders in front of a crowd of supporters at the Capital One Arena, Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Accords.
Additional executive orders expected to be signed include ending the Green New Deal and revoking the electric vehicle mandate.
