Are DOGE Cuts Putting Trump’s ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Edict at Risk?

“I have never felt more uncertainty about our business in my entire 40-plus-year career,” one industry executive wrote in the Dallas Fed’s first quarterly energy survey since Trump took office.

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President Donald Trump campaigned on tearing up Biden regulations on fossil fuels. Alex Brandon/AP

The Trump administration said it was going to launch a new era for American oil and gas production, tearing away Biden-era restrictions on fossil fuels and increasing the use of abundant natural resources.

Yet, petroleum industry executives are not nearly as happy as they were when Trump won the election, sources familiar with their thinking tell NOTUS. Why? Trump’s parallel agenda gutting the federal workforce could actually make it harder for this promised new energy production to actually take place.

These concerns have reached the highest levels of the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House, multiple people, including House of Representatives staffers and an industry lobbyist, told NOTUS.