The first week of summer is officially here, and I hope everyone is able to get out and enjoy our beautiful (but hot) state and nation. Our nation’s birthday, July 4, is right around the corner. As a nation, we have much to be grateful for. The freedom to enjoy time with our family, while our military, law enforcement and first responders keep us safe, is not something we should forget
Ȯklahomans are trying to figure out how to pay monthly bills, rather than just go out and have fun this July 4. Gas and grocery prices are way up after Biden’s “COVID relief free money” devastated our economy and created the inflation we are all suffering under. Biden continues to block energy investment in pipelines, refineries and drilling permits which is cutting oil and gas supplies and driving up prices. Inflation will remain out of control until our energy prices come down. Our team has worked for months pushing specific solutions to this energy crisis.
President Biden has tried every gimmick in the book to bring down energy prices, other than increasing the supply of oil and gas from the United States. He’s tried mandating more ethanol, reducing tariffs on foreign manufactured solar panels, releasing a million barrels of oil from our emergency Strategic Petroleum Reserve, begging Saudi Arabia for more oil production and now an 18-cent “gas tax holiday” for three months (which will add billions to our national debt). Gasoline is up more than $2 a gallon under his Administration. America needs more American energy supply to get the prices back to where it was just two years ago. We are Americans. We can produce energy cleaner and produce more energy than anywhere else on earth, if government will get out of the way.
UPDATE: Disinformation Governance Board
The Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, which sounds like the Ministry of Truth from Orwell’s 1984, was a bad idea that the Biden Administration thought they could slip by us without being noticed. They were wrong.
From documents we have now obtained, the Biden Administration was actively meeting with leadership at Twitter to silence opinions the Administration disagreed with. The leader of the Disinformation Governance Board was an outspoken promoter of the now-infamous Russian dossier hoax.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas met with our Committee a few weeks ago to answer questions about the Disinformation Board, but we now know multiple answers he gave us were not accurate. I have called for him to return to testify about his misleading testimony before the Committee.