With the recent launch of the National Energy Dominance Council to increase energy production and speed infrastructure permitting, the president has an opportunity to turn destructive Biden-era policies into tools of his America First agenda.

What the Democrats created for their purposes, President Donald Trump can use for his.

And that is especially true with President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda. From EV subsidies and mandates to rejoining the Paris climate agreement and investments in green energy infrastructure, the last administration spent countless hours and cost Americans well over a trillion dollars in an attempt to drive down carbon emissions.

Naturally, Biden’s subsidy and regulatory approach didn’t work. The Democrats fell short of their carbon reduction targets and U.S. debt skyrocketed.

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Yet while the Biden administration failed to accomplish its climate change goals, Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council can repurpose Democratic-built tools to advance an America First energy agenda.  

A prime target for reform would be Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This bloated bill was replete with waste, unnecessary earmarks and classic Washington grift. But there are also some beneficial policies as well. The IRA provides hundreds of billions of dollars to infrastructure, job creation and technological innovation in the clean energy sector.

“Clean energy sector” may have a left-coded ring to it, but on the ground, these jobs are precisely what we need to revitalize the workforce among the forgotten men and women of America who vaulted Trump to office. In large part because blue jurisdictions are so overburdened by taxes and regulations, 80% of the Biden administration’s clean energy manufacturing investments actually went to Republican districts.

In fact, it’s not a blue state like California that is at the forefront of the U.S. clean energy sector – it’s deep-red Texas.

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The National Energy Dominance Council should lean into these investments and let red states follow Texas’ lead. The clean energy market is already well over $1.2 trillion and growing at over 5% a year. 

The market for clean energy technology alone is expected to balloon to over $2 trillion by the mid-2030s. If current trends hold, China will eat up the lion’s share of this market. We can’t let that happen. 

Ironically, China has relied on its high-polluting economy to become the leading producer of solar panels and other clean tech. We must maintain national investments in this sector to keep clean energy development, manufacturing and production jobs in America rather than China. At the end of the day, we want American citizens and the world to buy our solar panels, batteries, nuclear technology and more.

When that happens, red America will not only benefit with lower energy costs and more manufacturing jobs – it will also give more Americans the freedom to produce and store their own power instead of having a local utility company control their energy destiny.

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However, simply repurposing Biden-era policies in wise ways is not enough. Trump will win where Biden failed because his energy strategy realizes the U.S. can’t attain energy dominance without dominating every energy technology. 

Instead of going all-in on clean energy tech alone, Trump also wholeheartedly embraces America’s legacy of fossil fuel production. To be energy dominant, America must keep oil and gas production high to drive down prices, retain good-paying American jobs, and displace higher-emitting fuels abroad.

By leaning into American oil and gas, Trump will also help the environment – just like he did during his first administration, when historic American LNG production helped cut U.S. carbon emissions to the lowest level in a quarter of a century.

Not every Biden-era green policy is ripe for redemption. Far from it: EV mandates, for example, are not only costly and inefficient but an affront to American freedom. And Biden’s regulatory attack on the oil and gas industry drove up prices while undermining what remains our greatest strategic energy advantage.

But we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. The National Energy Dominance Council should utilize Biden-era energy investments, redirect programs where possible and eliminate what can’t be used. When that happens, President Trump will have the ultimate victory – achieving total and complete energy dominance as fast, and efficiently, as possible.

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The sister of Vanessa Guillén, a U.S. Army soldier murdered and dismembered at what was formerly called Fort Hood in Texas, is floating a potential congressional challenge to Rep. Al Green, D-Texas. 

Mayra Guillén said she was considering running against Green after watching his outbursts during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress last week. 

After watching Green “disrespect” not only the president, “but our district, state and country, I believe it’s time for me to get into the fight like I did for my sister Vanessa Guillen!” Mayra Guillén wrote on X on March 6. “It’s time to end the propaganda displayed by these politicians, and time to help support [Trump] and his amazing [administration] to Make America Great Again! Al Green I’m coming for your seat.” 

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Local outlets, including the Houston Chronicle, picked up her potential congressional run in reports published Wednesday but said Guillén has yet to file the appropriate paperwork for a campaign. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Guillén for comment Thursday but did not immediately hear back. 

Green has represented his heavily blue Houston congressional district since 2005 and was unopposed in last year’s election. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., ordered the Sergeant at Arms to remove Green from the chamber when he repeatedly shouted over and wagged his cane at Trump during the president’s first congressional address back in office, and Republicans later voted to censure the long-time Democratic congressman. 

In 2021, Mayra Guillén founded the “I am Vanessa Guillén Foundation,” an advocacy group intended to give a voice to survivors of sexual violence in the military. 

People pay respects at a mural of Vanessa Guillen, a soldier murdered at nearby Fort Hood, on July 6, 2020, in Austin, Texas.  (Sergio Flores/Getty Images)

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Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Hood, was declared missing in April 2020 from the base outside Killeen, Texas, prompting a months-long search. 

Authorities eventually said she was murdered and dismembered in an armory room by a fellow soldier, Army Spc. Aaron Robinson, who died by suicide on July 1, 2020, when authorities were closing in on him a day after Guillén’s remains were found. 

The only person criminally charged in Guillén’s death was Robinson’s girlfriend, Cecily Aguilar, who authorities accused of helping him mutilate and hide the body. Aguilar was sentenced to 30 years in prison in August 2023 for accessory to murder.

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, shouts as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Guillén’s family has said they believe she was sexually harassed during her time at the Texas military base. While Army officials have said they do not believe Robinson harassed Guillén, they admitted in a report a year later that Guillén was harassed by another soldier at the base. 

Then-U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said during a visit to the Texas base that it had one of the highest rates of murder, sexual assault and harassment in the Army, later adding that the patterns of violence were a direct result of “leadership failures.” State and federal lawmakers passed legislation in 2021 honoring Guillén that removed some authority from commanders and gave survivors more options to report abuse and harassment. 

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Army officials disciplined 21 commissioned and non-commissioned officers in connection with Guillén’s death. Fort Hood was renamed to Fort Cavazos in May 2023. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

The woman who accused Kansas City Chiefs wideout Xavier Worthy of assaulting her, resulting in his arrest last week, has been granted a protective order by a Texas judge, according to her attorneys. 

Worthy, a 2024 first-round draft pick out of Texas and the silver lining in the Chiefs’ Super Bowl loss last month, was arrested in Williamson County on a charge of assault on a family or household member in which their breath was impeded. 

Tia Jones, who made the allegation, was granted a protective order against Worthy after the district attorney declined to press charges against the NFL player. 

“Ms. Jones has chosen to use her voice to speak up for herself,” her attorney, Angelica Cogliano, said in a statement to The Associated Press. “In doing so, she looks forward to the facts and circumstances of that night coming to light through the formal legal process, and getting the justice that she deserves.”

Her attorneys added that Jones is “fully cooperating” with law enforcement as they continue to investigate the allegations. 

Details of the alleged assault were not immediately known, but Worthy’s attorneys said in a separate statement that the allegation was made after a female living in his home refused to leave when repeatedly asked. 

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy during Super Bowl LIX against the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

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She was allegedly asked to leave “upon discovery of her infidelity.” 

“She has refused to vacate the residence and made a number of extortive efforts prior to resorting to this baseless allegation against Mr. Worthy,” the lawyers’ statement said. “The complainant further destroyed a room in the residence, scratched Mr. Worthy’s face and ripped out parts of his hair, which there is photographic evidence of. Worthy told law enforcement at the time of the incident he did not want to press charges against the complainant.”

Worthy was released Friday, and Williamson County District Attorney Shawn Dick later told the Austin American-Statesman his office had decided not to pursue the case at this time after speaking to multiple witnesses. 

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy at Caesars Superdome during Super Bowl LIX. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

He noted that Worthy was cooperating with officials. 

The Chiefs said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Saturday, “We are aware and gathering information.” 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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