Kathryn Burgum honors her husband, North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, during a caucus vigil party on February 8, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) cheered as he shook hands with former US President and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum – a potential running mate for former President Donald Trump – has denied claims the former president told oil executives he would reduce regulations if elected , in exchange for helping him raise funds to return to the White House.
According to the Washington Post, Trump Tell that to several of the country’s top oil executives He said during a meeting with them at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year that he would roll back dozens of environmental rules and policies enacted by the Biden administration and block the implementation of new ones. That is, if they raise $1 billion to re-elect him.
He said the donation would make it a “deal” because they would avoid taxes and regulations because of him. Trump also reportedly told senior executives that he would auction off more oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
“I was in that meeting and that didn’t happen,” Burgum said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “He’s not asking for a billion-dollar donation, and there’s no quid pro quo.”
Burgum also denied that Trump was targeting the oil industry to fund his re-election, saying “he wasn’t targeting anyone” but was “doing what candidates do” and listening to a company “critical to the entire economy.” ” industry.
In January, Burgum endorsed Trump for president. After launching his campaign in June 2023, he ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination a month early in December 2023 and has since become Trump’s energy policy adviser.
The Burgum family leases 200 acres of farmland in Williams County, North Dakota, to Continental Resources, the state’s largest oil and gas leasing company, for oil and gas extraction.
While his financial disclosures show he received up to $50,000 in royalties from his deal with Continental since late 2022, experts told CNBC that he and ‘s family business may have made thousands of dollars.
Asked whether his alliance with the energy industry would alienate younger voters who think climate and environmental policy is important to them, Burgum was “not concerned at all,” he said.
Burgum is also a software entrepreneur; declare Earlier this year, he said he would not seek a third term as governor. His second term ends on December 14.
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