White House counters Jeffries on permitting

Punchbowl News · - Josh Siegel · 2026-11-06 07:00 UTC

The Trump administration is making its most aggressive move yet to unlock Democratic support for the Senate’s energy permitting deal.

The Trump administration is making its most aggressive move yet to unlock Democratic support for the Senate’s bipartisan energy permitting deal as it looks to counter House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ sudden opposition to the bill.

The Defense Department is advancing nine more wind projects on Friday that have been held up at the Pentagon for months, a White House official exclusively told us.

All of the approvals are large-scale new wind projects of the type that Democrats have been demanding. Two of them are in New Mexico, the home state of Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democratic co-author of the permitting bill. It also includes two projects in Wyoming, two in Texas, and one each in Illinois, Indiana and Kansas.

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