New Mexico leaders bash Biden admin’s order targeting oil, drilling on federal land: ‘How does that bring us together?’ – TheBlaze

Nothing Biden or the Democrats have done this week is even remotely about “bringing us together.” In fact everything they have done starting before Biden’s empty words finished echoing around the empty Washington Mall has been deliberately calculated to deepen the divide in this country.

The Biden administration’s 60-day pause on new oil and natural gas leases and drilling permits on federal land, signed by Acting Interior Secretary Scott de la Vega late Wednesday, could result in devastating consequences to state economies that rely on proceeds from oil sales. POLL: What issue concerns you most with the Biden/Harris administration? The order, which appeased progressive environmentalist groups, has significant immediate effects.

New Mexico leaders bash Biden admin’s order targeting oil, drilling on federal land: ‘How does that bring us together?’ – TheBlaze