Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said the natural assets of the U.S.could be worth triple the country’s $36.6 trillion national debt during a Wednesday policy event hosted by Breitbart News.
The conference, just blocks away from the White House in Washington, DC, featured fiery statements from Burgum as he was interviewed on stage by Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle:
.@SecretaryBurgum explains how America’s assets could be worth triple our national debt: “There’s 700 million acres of subsurface that we have the mineral rights, critical minerals, oil and gas… And there’s 2.5 billion acres of offshore many of which have not even been… pic.twitter.com/59XONtb8Bw
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“You’ve heard more than once or twice or 10 times that we have 36 and a half trillion dollars of debt. I mean, it’s in advertisements. We hear it,” Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota, said. “We hear it, and and I would invite anybody here from the media side [to] do what I did when I was going through my Senate hearings.”
Describing how he has only moved to Washington, DC recently to join President Donald Trump’s cabinet, Burgum said he started off by asking anyone “in a position of authority or experience” about the national debt.
“I said, you know, ‘What’s our debt?’ 36 and a half trillion. ‘What are our assets?’ I mean, I challenge anybody to go try to find a current balance sheet for the United States of America,” the secretary said incredulously. […]
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