This Independence Day, the U.S. is longing for a return to America First
In 2022, Americans are longing for a return to the strong policies of President Donald Trump’s administration.
Trump was a president who put Americans’ needs before the rest of the world’s.
On the other hand, Joe Biden said Thursday that Americans could expect to pay high gas prices “for as long as it takes,” to keep Russia from defeating Ukraine, according to the Washington Examiner. “This is a critical, critical position for the world,” he insisted.
Biden additionally announced this week that the U.S. would send another $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, following a $40 billion aid package sent in May.
However, Americans are overwhelmingly uninterested in sending money and aid overseas when people here at home are being crushed under rising energy prices, record-setting gas prices, and soaring food costs.
A June poll from YouGov for Concerned Veterans for America found that 38 percent of Americans would rather see Biden focus on assuaging domestic inflationary pressure versus a slim 8 percent who thought it was important to secure Russia’s defeat in their conflict with Ukraine.
Amid rising prices, supply chain problems, an unstable stock market, a nationwide labor shortage, and the decimation of the American energy industry, many people are reflecting on better days when President Trump was in office.
Energy Independence
In a recent interview with Newsmax, President Trump pointed out that America was energy independent during his time in office. “We had more energy than anybody,” he said. “And now we’re asking Saudi Arabia to, ‘Send us oil, please.’ We’re asking Venezuela. Unthinkable…we have, I call it, liquid gold. We have it under our feet. We were energy independent.”
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— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) June 30, 2022
President Trump’s policies fostered energy production that had never been seen before in the U.S. The White House archives noted that under Trump, the U.S. became a net energy exporter for the first time in 70 years. Trump approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines and opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska for oil and gas leasing. These policies secured America’s independence when it came to energy production, subsequently lowering energy and oil costs for the entire country.
Unlike Trump, Biden squashed American energy independence in his first 11 months in office, killing the Keystone XL pipeline, for example, on his first day on the job with an executive order. The Daily Signal reported that Keystone XL alone would have boosted the U.S. GDP by more than $3 billion and carried a daily oil production of 830,000 barrels of oil between Canada and the U.S.
Under Trump, Americans were paying an average of $2.39 per gallon of gas. In May 2022, the AAA National Average report revealed that Americans were paying an average of $4.81 per gallon under Biden.
Where Trump put America first, Biden has put America last, and taxpaying citizens are literally paying the price.