Article originally appeared on thefederalist.com.
I was at the last outpost of the Keystone XL pipeline when President Biden shut it down in January of 2021. The only TV outlet there covering the shutdown was Fox News. My organization, Power The Future, fights for energy workers, and Joe Biden had declared war against them.
Biden signed Executive Order 13990 just a few hours after his swearing in, and thousands of people were suddenly out of a job. I met Bugsy, a 30-year master welder, over the phone. Not only had he lost the current project on Keystone XL, but all future welding gigs had been scrapped. No one would build a pipeline in the era of Biden. Bugsy, a single dad of three Texas farm boys, went from having nearly a decade of jobs lined up to nothing.
His story needed to be told. I asked my buddy Alex Bruesewitz if he could get me a film crew and help me document what …
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