Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) expressed hope that former President Donald Trump will keep his campaign promise to be tough on foreign energy, should he win the presidential office.

With the election just days away, every campaign policy of Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is under intense scrutiny. Crenshaw recently signed an amicus brief with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to dispute the Biden-Harris administration’s stoppage of a liquified natural gas export terminal that already had its permit to be built in Texas, and implied that the same interference would not happen under a Trump administration.

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“Trump has a real opportunity here. So, when he wins, he has an amazing opportunity to actually make good on his promise because there’s a paradigm shift in foreign policy. There’s a paradigm shift in leadership,” Crenshaw explained on One Nation with Brian Kilmeade on Saturday. “So he can actually do what he said he wants, which is get Russia to the negotiating table and create peace, but you have to be strong to do that. You have to escalate to de-escalate in a way. You’ve got to let the Ukrainians actually do what they need to do to put Russia back on its heels. Trump has the history of actually leading by peace through strength. He’s actually walked that walk. A lot of people say it but don’t understand it.”

The Department of Energy paused all new LNG exports across 16 states. These states went on to file a lawsuit against the department to stay the pause. In the meantime, Russia is closing the gap as the second biggest producer of natural gas to the United States.

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Then, the Trump-appointed Judge James Cain of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, ruled in the states’ favor. Cain ruled that the move goes against the language of the Natural Gas Act and undermines the legislative branch’s “determination that LNG exports are presumptively in the public interest.” 

This ruling is currently on appeal.