‘They See Great Opportunity’: Interior Secretary Burgum Shows How US-Venezuela Partnership Is Already Paying Dividends

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said Sunday that, since the capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. has benefitted from its new partnership with Venezuela.

Oil prices climbed since President Donald Trump announced the United States military and Israel Defense Forces launched military strikes against Iran early Feb. 28. WTI Futures Crude Oil closed Friday at $90.90, up over $20 from the market’s Feb. 27 close, the day before the strikes, according to Investing.com. Burgum said Venezuela was “rich, rich. rich” in crucial minerals in addition to oil.

“Because Venezuela is part of this equation now and you were just there, say all this oil — you said three percent — from the Middle East winds up getting cut off,” “The Sunday Briefing” co-host Peter Doocy asked Burgum. “Is there enough in Venezuela to keep everything in the U.S. gassed up?”

“Yeah, absolutely. Between the U.S. and our U.S. industry, which is the most innovative and most effective in the world, I mean we’re the number one oil producer in the world, we’re the number one LNG producer,” Burgum responded. “When Russia invaded Ukraine four years ago, all of the European Union was effectively dependent on Russian natural gas. Now two-thirds of that is supplied by the U.S. I mean, the U.S. is coming to the rescue of the Free World because of President Trump’s ⚡Energy-dominant policies, an American-First approach to getting things done here in America where we do it better, cleaner, safer, smarter than anywhere else in the world.”

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