00:00solar panels and wind turbines from China and others. Trump's policies have been
00:06terrible for our competition with China, terrible for working families trying to
00:11pay their bills. There is only one group that benefits from these policies and
00:18that is the oil and gas oligarchs who funded Trump's campaign. Mr. Secretary, at
00:23every turn you've helped all this happen. You have treated the public lands and
00:28waters that you've been entrusted with like assets on a corporate balance sheet
00:32so that billionaires, foreign companies, and political donors can profit. You've
00:37enabled a culture of corruption where people in your agency are making
00:41decisions that line their own pockets and enrich their families and friends.
00:45Under your leadership, Department of Interior has been a billionaire's dream
00:50but a nightmare for the public and a betrayal of our obligations to future
00:54generations. Families across the country right now can't even afford essentials
00:59like gas, health care, and groceries. But instead of trying to make their lives
01:03better, Trump has been obsessed with a raft of vanity projects and you've been one
01:08of the principal enablers. You've fed his hyper fixation on buildings that glorify
01:14him like the ridiculous gilded ballroom and the massive arch to Trump that he's
01:19trying to build right in front of Arlington Cemetery. You even put his picture on
01:23Park passes. You let him replace Martin Luther King Jr. Day with his own birthday
01:28as a free National Parks Day. Under your budget, which you say in your testimony is
01:34about fiscal responsibility, just about everything that benefits tribes, public
01:39lands, wildlife, and water is facing deep cuts which makes the increased funding
01:45for Washington DC beautification and the endless time and money that you seem to
01:51have for projects that stroke Trump's massive ego even more glaringly
01:56disconnected from the needs and reality that most American families are facing
02:02right now. This is the most nakedly corrupt administration in American history. My
02:07oath of office requires me to be very candid about that. One tally of cash and gifts
02:14received by the Trump family from selling the presidency comes to 2.6 billion
02:19dollars and that is almost certainly an understatement. Donald Trump Jr. invested
02:25in a small mining startup that has ballooned to 10 times its original value
02:29after daddy bought a chunk of the company with taxpayer dollars and then
02:35issued a Department of Defense loan for 620 billion dollars more. In fact Trump has
02:41been on a spending spree buying chunks of lots of companies including foreign owned
02:46mining companies like Trilogy Metals which is proposing a mine in the Alaska
02:51wilderness. And meanwhile Trump appointees are making a mockery of ethics while
02:56reaping personal benefits. At the Fish and Wildlife Service an official got her
03:01family business a permit for its captive animal breeding operation. Your associate
03:06deputy secretary inked an undisclosed 3.5 million dollar water rights deal with a
03:11mining company. My colleagues and I have been working around the clock to keep up
03:16with this steady churn of scandal created by Trump in your Interior Department. But
03:21Mr. Secretary you and your agency have stonewalled us at every turn.
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