Interior Secretary Doug Burgum made it clear to oil, gas, and mining executives this week that the Trump administration stands behind them, reports CNBC.

“I’m going to share two words that I do not think that you have heard from a federal official in the Biden administration during the last four years, and those two words are: thank you,” Burgum, who previously served as governor of North Dakota, a state that produces 1.2 million barrels of oil per day, told a crowd at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston Wednesday.

“If we’re going to ‘drill, baby, drill,’ then we’ve got to be asked to also mine, baby, mine.”

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