‘The Billion Dollar Deal’: How Trump Serves Big Oil

Thursday, September 24, 2026

"Our new report exposes this old-fashioned corruption, by a thuggish government and a desperate industry, that is squeezing every last dollar out of Americans' pocketbooks while they still can."

While running for president in 2024, Donald Trump told oil and gas executives that he would pursue their policy priorities if the industry raised $1 billion for his campaign"and after returning to office last year, the Republican did just that, enriching those invested in fossil fuels, including himself, at the expense of the public and planet.

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"The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations, after Trump promised fossil fuel bigwigs at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser that he'd do anything and everything they wanted, for the right price," Whitehouse said in a statement.

"Now, their minions run the government from the inside, driving up energy bills to deliver payouts to the donors that put Trump back in office," he continued.

"Our new report exposes this old-fashioned corruption, by a thuggish government and a desperate industry, that is squeezing every last dollar out of Americans' pocketbooks while they still can."

Sen. Whitehouse outlines the quid pro quo:

www.youtube.com

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-24 06:14 PM | Reply

@#1 ... "The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations, after Trump promised fossil fuel bigwigs at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser that he'd do anything and everything they wanted, for the right price," Whitehouse said in a statement. ...

From the cited article ...

... That's according to "The Billion Dollar Deal: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Bought the Trump Administration, Cashed In, and Left Americans to Pay the Price," a [PDF] report released Thursday by US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). ...

A link to the cited PDF report is here: www.epw.senate.gov

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-24 06:45 PM | Reply

@#1 ... The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations ...

Sadly, Big Oil do not seem to be the only ones who have purchased Pres Trump's occupancy of the Oval Office for their own benefit.

Indeed, that almost seems to be the norm for Pres Trump.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-24 06:48 PM | Reply