Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said the natural assets of the U.S.could be worth triple the country’s $36.6 trillion national debt during a Wednesday policy event hosted by Breitbart News.
The conference, just blocks away from the White House in Washington, DC, featured fiery statements from Burgum as he was interviewed on stage by Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle:
“You’ve heard more than once or twice or 10 times that we have 36 and a half trillion dollars of debt. I mean, it’s in advertisements. We hear it,” Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota, said. “We hear it, and and I would invite anybody here from the media side [to] do what I did when I was going through my Senate hearings.”
Describing how he has only moved to Washington, DC recently to join President Donald Trump’s cabinet, Burgum said he started off by asking anyone…
