By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-09 04:20:44 | Updated at 2025-01-09 16:11:59
11 hours ago
Utah Gov. Cox headed to Mar-a-Lago to visit President-elect Trump. Here’s what he says they’ll talk about.
Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Jan. 8, 2025 | Robert Gehrke
Posted on 01/08/2025 8:13:18 PM PST by fluorescence
Gov. Spencer Cox plans to discuss unlocking energy potential on public lands among other issues as he heads to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday along with Republican governors from across the country to pitch their priorities to President-elect Donald Trump.
“I plan to talk to him, if I get the opportunity, about energy and about public lands and how we can unleash the energy potential, especially in the West,” Cox told reporters Wednesday after his ceremonial inauguration. “We need significant reform in the energy space, especially when it comes to nuclear, being able to permit nuclear.”
One of Cox’s main goals for his second term is doubling energy production within the next decade, and his vision for achieving that includes bringing nuclear power to the Beehive State for the first time.
Utah’s history with all things nuclear has been fraught, since an untold number of residents were sickened by exposure to fallout from atomic bomb tests in neighboring Nevada. Utah later was targeted as a site for a high-level nuclear waste repository — a plan that ultimately was abandoned.
Cox said he expects discussions to arise on housing affordability, border security and inflation — topics that are concerns for all of the GOP governors.
Utah’s chief executive said he also anticipates raising the status of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National monuments — which were created by Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, respectively, slashed to a fraction of their size during the first Trump presidency, and then restored under President Joe Biden.
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1 posted on 01/08/2025 8:13:18 PM PST by fluorescence
To: fluorescence
This is awesome! I don’t ever recall a governor talking to a POTUS one-on-one or to a President-elect. I’m sure it’s happened, but I can’t think of another time.
One exec to another talking about serious issues of importance to all Americans.
2 posted on 01/08/2025 8:17:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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