A crowd of aging leftists were seen in Wasilla on Saturday, taking part in the national protest against all-things Donald Trump. The protests have gone on continuously since Trump was inaugurated.
Most of the protesters were in their 60s and older, and some of them held disposable cups of caramel macchiatos or low-fat lattes while they stood in their made-in-China polypropylene outerwear and held signs that said, “Tax the Rich,” “Musk Stinks,” and one that thanked Sen. Lisa Murkowski for defending “democracy.”
A predominant theme was protesting the deportation of violent criminal gang members, which they see as illegal. They believe illegal aliens who are members of international terrorist organizations such as Tren de Aragua deserve due process before they are deported.
In the state’s largest city, where vagrant and criminal encampments are spreading like wildfire, the state Division of Forestry is not providing classes in basic firefighting, as it is providing across the rest of the state.
The flyer for the classes include ones Kenai, Glennallen, and Fairbanks, where lightning strikes set off fires each summer, but in Anchorage, where outdoor-dwellers start fires such as the massive one at Davis Park in February that burned multiple structures, nothing is being offered for the public to learn about the basics of dealing with a wildfire.
Fire season started early this year due to low snow in Anchorage. In 2024, the Anchorage Fire Department reported responding to 5-20 daily calls related to camps, although not all the calls were due to fires. There are hundreds of individuals living in various stages of temporary shelters. In February, there were over 100 tents at Cuddy Park.
The US Supreme Court on Saturday issued a temporary order halting the deportation of certain Venezuelan nationals identified by the Trump Administration as members of violent gangs, including the terrorist organization Tren de Aragua.
In an unsigned brief, the high court directed that “the government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court.” But the court did not say when it would revisit the issue.
The ruling puts a pause on a portion of the administration’s recent immigration enforcement actions carried out under the Enemy Aliens Act, which the administration has cited in its efforts to expedite the removal of individuals deemed threats to national security.
According to officials, more than 50 Venezuelan nationals were scheduled to be deported on the next flight. Five deportation flights have already been conducted as part of this process. The flights have been going to El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele, is working with the Trump Administration to detain violent criminal illegal foreign nationals.
In this installment, we’ll go over what it means for public safety, Medicaid, and the Permanent Fund Dividend.
Public Safety
We’ll start this one with a look at the Department of Public Safety.
Between 2005 and 2025, its budget jumped 62 percent, from $160 million to $260 million, yet Alaska’s crime rate leads the nation at 838.2 per 100,000 (FBI stats). Per the Alaska Beacon, trooper ranks are 17-20 percent unfilled, but this is not a new problem. A report in 2017 showed that AST/AWT carried an average of 77 vacant positions each year from 2006 to 2016.
Are these vacancies a systemic problem or built into the budgeting equation?
Corrections spending soared 85 percent, from $200 million to $370 million, but recidivism is glued down at 66.41 percent. It’s like buying a top-tier security system and opening the door. So, how are we measuring performance success for every dollar spent? It isn’t clear to Alaskans. Carrying a high number of vacancies and then going to Juneau requesting more positions was questioned in the past, but was met with swift condemnation from officials. What other conclusion should Alaskans come to when spending is increasing faster than inflation, yet performance is dropping, and this trend continues over decades?
In 2022, the Alaska Beacon reported, “Public safety positions, either with the Alaska State Troopers or the Department of Corrections, account for 11 of the top 25 highest paid positions and 28 of the top 50” highest paid state employees. Many law enforcement officers make upwards of $125,000. Several earn above $200,000. This is not a knock against our first responders. The work is challenging, shifts are long, and staffing challenges persist. Still, we must understand the drivers of the high costs of providing these essential services in our community and the pressures of identifying revenue sources to fund them. We need to find a more effective way to bring down crime rates and save more lives.
Medicaid Madness
Next, let’s wade into the Medicaid mess, a shell game with Alaska holding the short stick.
Gov. Bill Walker’s 2015 expansion of Medicaid compromised Alaska’s healthcare system, with Uncle Sam only footing 90 percent of the bill and Alaska covering 10 percent, about $50 million a year, says the Alaska Department of Health. The total cost to Alaska since expansion is roughly $500 million, with approximately 25,000 Alaska Natives enrolled. Why is this a big deal? The Indian Health Service (IHS) is federally mandated to cover Alaska Native healthcare, but Medicaid expansion (Obamacare lite) found a way to get the State of Alaska to pay part of that tab. It’s like your rich uncle asking you to chip in for his yacht repairs. It’s his responsibility, not yours. Today, for any part of the 10 percent of the Medicaid expansion costs that the State of Alaska has assumed is a portion of this trust responsibility, the state should not be paying. Rather than fix the problem, the legislature proposes to take more of your PFD to pay for it or, better yet, tax you. Come on, Alaska, figure it out!
The kicker? Medicaid fraud and abuse could be siphoning off $100-$200 million annually in Alaska, fake claims, overbilling, or services never rendered. A 2023 audit flagged $80 million in questionable payments, yet follow-up has been slower than a glacier in July. Add in administrative bloat (10-15 percent of costs, per national averages), and you’ve got a program that’s less “safety net” and more “money pit.” Yet you don’t hear cries from Juneau to fix these problems or calls to seek out waste or inefficiencies. They want a reason to grab your PFD; it’s a strong government economy they seek to build.
The PFD
Now here is where it gets personal: the Permanent Fund Dividend. This isn’t just a check; it’s your backstage pass to Alaska’s resource wealth, a tangible reminder that the oil, gas, and minerals under this frozen turf are owned by you, the citizen, in common. Back in 1982, the PFD was born to share that bounty, and in 1985, 87 percent of Alaskans voted “hands off” in an advisory referendum. Fast forward to today, and politicians are itching to claw it back, floating plans like a 75-25 split, 75 percent for government, 25 percent for you (currently 50/50). It’s like inviting you to a buffet at your house, and the guests hand you a cracker while they hog the prime rib. The decision to take more of the dividend should be made by a vote of the people.
Why the obsession with cutting the dividend? Simple: snatching your slice is easier than baking a smaller pie. The PFD checks pump $1-$2 billion into the private economy yearly, local shops, rent, and snow tires, but redirecting it to Juneau keeps their machine humming. Last year’s $1,700 PFD could’ve been $3,400 without the budget bloat. Don’t be gaslit; the spending is “unsustainable”; their spending is the real iceberg.
In 2016, Mission Critical, a United for Liberty project, pegged potential savings at $3 billion annually, enough for an extra $4,700 PFD for every Alaskan each year. Examples? Merge Alaska’s 54 school districts into 27 (saving $11 million), crack down on Medicaid fraud ($200 million), or axe redundant programs (another $500 million). Slash a few of the 2,900 vacant fully funded positions and save hundreds of millions. States like Texas and Florida have slashed budgets without gutting services. We can, too.
A Government-First Gospel: Juneau’s Big Top
So, what’s driving this push for taxes and more of your PFD? It’s a patronage party, and you’re not invited. Take the $1.5 billion in “nice-to-haves” Mission Critical flagged, think social grants, vacant positions, duplicate agencies, or bloated admin staff. Cutting those threatens the gravy train.
Then there’s the control angle. A government-first economy lets them steer everything: your healthcare, kids’ schools, and PFD. It’s like giving a micromanager a megaphone. In contrast, a private economy grows wealth, think oil rigs, fisheries, and startups, but Alaska’s political class treats it like a third-world backwater, scaring off investors with instability. Alaska is a state where 1 in 4 jobs depends on Juneau, not ingenuity.
The good news for Alaskans is that we don’t need new taxes or PFD cuts. Start with audits, line-by-line, agency-by-agency. Prioritize constitutional must-haves (education, safety) and statutory duties (Medicaid), then make every “nice-to-have” fight for its life in public debates. Streamline: why 54 school districts for 130,000 kids? Why not bid out services competitively in some areas? And for Pete’s sake, stop letting Uncle Sam dump IHS costs on us. Using Mission Critical’s potential savings ideas is a roadmap. The fix is right there.
The choice is in the hands of Alaskans. Demand audits at every town hall. Tell your reps: no taxes, no cuts to the dividend, just cuts to the non-mission critical spending. The Permanent Fund is your generational link to Alaska’s wealth. Don’t let Juneau turn it into their short-lived piggy bank. One analyst quipped, “Alaska’s budget is a snowmachine stuck in the mud. More gas won’t help; you’ve got to get an ATV and the right equipment for the job.” Will this legislative session be just another wash-rinse-repeat? Let’s hope not.
Terrence Shanigan is a lifelong Alaskan of Sugpiaq descent from Bristol Bay. He is also the co-founder of Mission Critical, is a combat veteran, an honored husband and a dedicated father.
The terms “road diet” (reducing lanes), “bike equity” (reducing lanes and reassigning them to bikes) or even the grandest term of them all, that “roads are racist,” may be new to you. If you have questions about any of them, perhaps you should attend a Fairview Community Council meeting in Anchorage. That’s a group that promulgates the “road diet” lane reductions and “roads are racist” theories in Anchorage.
One federally funded project clearly needs further discussion.
Bragaw Street between Northern Lights and the Glenn Highway has been targeted for a “road diet” by reducing this heavily trafficked road from two lanes to one lane in each direction in order to make the area “safe for all road users.”
On Nov. 15, 2021 President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. Through this $1,200,000,000,000 ($1.2 trillion) federal expenditure, nearly $25 million was prioritized in Anchorage for this Bragaw “road diet” project.
Could this money be allocated not only for Bragaw Street but for all of the rest of us in Anchorage?
The State of Alaska Legislature had earlier granted $20 million to Anchorage in order to extend Bragaw Street from Northern Lights to the intersection of Providence Drive and Elmore Road. This project would have connected Bragaw with the existing infrastructure to Tudor Road.
Mayor Ethan Berkowitz returned that money to Juneau. On Dec. 5, 2015, he requested the money be spent on the Port of Anchorage Modernization Project. He cited fiscal austerity, potential cost overruns, and community opposition as reasons, asking for the $15-17 million balance to be redirected.
At that time, extending Bragaw was supported not only by both universities but also Providence Medical Center. Response times from the Glenn Highway and Mountain View for emergency services would have been reduced by many critical minutes.
For reasons of public safety, I encourage everyone reading this to contact Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Dan Sullivan and Congressman Nick Begich and ask that this $24.9 million of federal money be restored to the already discussed and supported Bragaw extension to Tudor Road — and not for this “road diet.”
If that fails and the monies are not utilized for that purpose, then I ask everyone to contact Elon Musk and DOGE, or contact the House DOGE Caucusand tell them to withdraw this money and apply it to the federal budget deficit.
Bob Maier is an Anchorage Property Taxpayer and Utility Ratepayer in Anchorage.
Anti-Trump protesters across the country are holding yet another protest, this time on Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
It’s organized by the 50-50-1 movement, a national surrogate organization related to the Democrat Party.
In Anchorage, the protest is at noon at Anchorage Town Square and will go to the offices of Congressman Nick Begich and those of Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan. Similar protests may be seen in other Alaska communities, such as Juneau and Fairbanks.
The 50-50-1 movement means 50 states, 50 protests, one movement.
It is a part of a Maoist/Marxist “continuous revolution,” and has been going on since President Donald Trump was inaugurated, as it did during his first. The group told Newsweek that organizers want to see an even bigger turnout than ever before, to show a “sustained resistance in order to make a difference.” In other words, it’s a movement of election deniers. The 50501 movement organizers say that there has been a “hostile government takeover” by the Trump Administration.
Holy Saturday is observed as the day that Christ was in the tomb for the entire day, and many Christians hold an Easter vigil, as Easter is the highest holy weekend of the year. Holy Saturday is an extremely important day, the day before Christ was resurrected. Many families also have Easter egg hunts on Saturday.
Easter traditions around the world often feature eggs as symbols of resurrection and renewal. Our backyard chickens are perfectly aligned with Holy Week, as the lengthening of daylight boosts egg production just in time for Easter celebrations. Fresh eggs are a delicious addition to our holiday meals and also serve as reminders of new beginnings.
Deviled eggs will undoubtedly be on many menus this weekend.
This simple dish has graced dining tables for centuries. Food historians trace its name back to 18th-century England. Despite the name’s mischievous implication, the term actually refers to its flavor profile. Deviled foods were traditionally seasoned with bold ingredients like mustard and peppers to elevate humble dishes like eggs and organ meats.
One delicious way to liven up your deviled eggs is to add wild-caught seafood from your freezer. Shrimp, crab, and smoked salmon are excellent complements and a fantastic way to use your catch. This addition adds a regional flair, elevating the dish and making it a standout at any occasion.
The recipe below does not use mayonnaise or mustard, but it preserves the traditional savoriness of deviled eggs with cayenne and black pepper. This mixture also includes lemon juice, olive oil, and dill, which add a burst of spring freshness to your palate, perfectly complementing the toppings. The suggested garnishes serve as a starting point for inspiration; however, if you prefer not to use seafood, you can simply add bacon and a gherkin or any other topping of your choice.
Alaskan-Caught Deviled Eggs
Ingredients:
12 eggs, hard boiled
1 teaspoon dried dill
½ teaspoon of sea salt
½ teaspoon of black pepper
¼ teaspoon of ground cayenne pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
½ cup sour cream
Garnishment: Suggested Options
Smoked salmon, capers
Shrimp (broiled, sauteed, or grilled), red peppers very finely diced, chives finely sliced
Crab, dill, and red peppers very finely diced
Crispy Bacon, gherkin sliced partway through to make a fan
Servings: 24 appetizers
Preparation:
Gather your garnishment materials and prepare them as needed for topping, such as peeling and cooking shrimp, removing cooked crab flesh from shells, slicing smoked salmon into bite-sized pieces, or preparing bacon. Next, cut or slice any fresh peppers, herbs, or gherkins for garnish. Set aside and chill if necessary while you make the deviled eggs.
Note: Because the garnish calls for a small, bite-sized quantity of protein on each piece, you’ll only need about 4 ounces for all 24 appetizers. If using shrimp, you will require 24 pieces. If you use bacon, 6 to 7 slices will be enough for 24 finished deviled eggs.
Next, prepare the deviled eggs by slicing the hard-boiled eggs in half and separating the egg yolks into a medium-sized bowl. Set the whites aside to be filled later.
Mix the egg yolks together using a fork to break them apart. Add the seasonings: dill, sea salt, black pepper, and cayenne. Combine all the dry ingredients thoroughly. Then, add the olive oil and lemon juice and incorporate together with the other ingredients. Last but not least, stir in the sour cream until it becomes smooth.
Place the mixture in the egg whites that were set aside. Finally, add the finishing touches. Garnish the deviled eggs with smoked salmon, crab, shrimp, bacon, or another topping of your choice.
Enjoy!
Brenda Josephson is a Haines resident. She holds degrees in Culinary Arts and Food Business Leadership from the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York. She enjoys spending time fishing, foraging, and savoring Alaska’s abundance of natural and wild foods with her family.
This article is the first installment of a two-part series.
Picture this: Alaska’s state budget is a moose-sized piñata, stuffed to the antlers with $12.2 billion in 2025, up from a leaner $6.3 billion back in 2005, a 93 percent leap that makes inflation look like it’s trudging through knee-deep snow. Yet, here come the politicians, puffing out their chests like sled dogs at the Iditarod, insisting the only way to keep this party going is to slap you with taxes or swipe a chunk of your Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD).
Spoiler alert: that’s a snow job bigger than a Fairbanks blizzard. The real scoop? Alaska’s budget is a circus of supersized spending that is plump with some waste, duplication, and a lot of inefficiencies. Trim that fat, and we could fund your PFD and throw in a complimentary moose nugget souvenir.
The Budget Boom: A Comedy of Errors, Minus the Punchline
Let’s start with the numbers because nothing says “fun” like a deep dive into fiscal quicksand.
In 2005, Alaska had a workforce of approximately 16,740 people. Fast forward to 2025, the workforce has shrunk 13 percent to 14,564, per the Office of Management and Budget, yet total spending has nearly doubled. Inflation clocked in at a measly 63 percent in comparison, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So, what’s driving this runaway dogsled? It’s not population (still hovering around 730,000) or economic boom times.
The answer is that we are not swimming in gold. It’s spending gone wilder than a bear in a berry patch.
Take the approximate cost per state employee (pay, retirement, and benefits combined): estimated at $62,700 in 2005, now a 78 percent spike to an estimated $111,600 in 2025, according to OpenTheBooks and the Alaska Department of Administration workforce profile. That’s like trading your snowmachine for a private jet and still complaining about the gas bill.
Why the hike? Health insurance costs are up, but so are salaries and pensions, even as productivity lags. Administrative overhead eats up 15 percent or more of budgets across agencies. Think of it as paying for a deluxe igloo when a tent would do.
A huge budget cost-driver is excessive vacant employee positions across state government to the tune of 17 percent, which has gone on for over 20 years. Private sector vacancy rates range between 3 percent and 10 percent, depending on the industry. Below 5 percent suggests full staffing and is an ideal vacancy rate. Above 10 percent could signal an unhealthy system or workplace. The vacancy factor is a good read on an organization’s overall health and can be essential to long-range planning accounting for attrition and growth. At an approximate average of 17 percent for state agencies, it makes one wonder what the issue is. Some explain that such a high vacancy rate is due to low wages and poor benefits and the government jobs just are not attractive enough.
House Bill 180 was supposed to be a watchdog for stale, vacant positions, filed during the Alaska Legislature in 2021-2022 by former Rep. Ben Carpenter. The bill aimed at amending Alaska Statute Sec. 39.25.156 and suggested a process to eliminate vacant positions. HB 180 proposed that on “June 30 of each year, the Director of Personnel would eliminate a vacant position in the classified or partially exempt service that had been unfilled for the immediately preceding 364-day period.”
Here is the fine print: HB 180 would have ensured that only unused positions were targeted, protecting those in active recruitment less than 364 days old. Like many good ideas in the Juneau, once it is put into the meat grinder of committee hearings, it failed to pass. Since then, the vacancy factor has remained sky-high, and there is no statutory accountability mechanism directing departments to return those unfilled positions. Do they now get a pass on their excessive vacant positions if they are advertised? What about if they are temporarily occupied for even one day? Is this done to keep the money in their budgets to be applied elsewhere?
Alaska needs a statute that explicitly details what to do if money is approved for a vacant position that is not filled in a certain amount of time. The funds should have limited flexibility to be used by a department to pay overtime and should be returned to the general fund after 364 days to be reappropriated only by the legislature, as Carpenter proposed. I am not suggesting that departments present inaccurate or deceptive budgets, but a more efficient way to ensure accountability for every public dollar spent would be to restrict the executive branch from discretionary funding flexibility with mechanisms like this. When there is a cost overrun due to an unforeseen situation, department managers can use the established supplementary budget process, return to the legislature, request from the appropriating body, and ask for more funds. We shouldn’t be able to do both because it drives this insatiable appetite for more money and renews the calls for needing more of your PFD or proposed taxes.
Education: Funded like Oil Barrons, Results Resemble Moose Droppings
Then there’s education, where spending crept from $12,926 per pupil in 2005 to an estimated $21,676 in 2024, a 67 percent jump, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of School System Finances with estimated inflationary adjustments and known BSA increases. Sounds reasonable, right? Except fourth-grade reading proficiency slid from 29 percent to 27 percent, per the National Center for Education Statistics, and public schools now burn through all this cash with no expectation of improved outcomes. Compare that to Alaska’s homeschool programs, thriving on $5,364 per kid, with parents reporting better outcomes. Many public school districts skim up to 50 percent of those homeschool funds for their “admin costs.” It’s like hiring a chef who eats half your groceries before cooking.
Why do we permit this to happen? If equal competition were allowed in our learning system, teachers could provide more personalized educational opportunities in K-12.
Imagine if that $21,676 followed a student. An elementary teacher, for example, could build a customized classroom for 18 children with a budget of $390,000. Teachers could lease space in our many vacant and under-capacity schools for a reasonable cost ($25,000), pay themselves an executive salary ($150,000), hire a well-qualified teacher’s aide ($75,000), Insurance ($50,000), and still have nearly $90,000 for supplies, field trips, extracurricular activities, et cetera. And no union dues or administrative overhead. Just academic accountability directly to parents. Perform, or they leave and find a new teacher. You don’t have to dismantle the public system to do this. That is a choice for parents to make. Parents can choose if they want their money to be used in the available public system or the higher-performing academic system of their choosing. If the public system is underperforming, the parents can leave. This is an excellent incentive to focus on results and learning outcomes, not just checking the box and arguing for weeks on end every year about adjusting one part of the student funding formula, the BSA.
What about public safety? How does this affect Medicaid? Then there’s the million-dollar question: why do lawmakers want more of your PFD?
We’ll dive into that in the next and final installment.
Terrence Shanigan is a lifelong Alaskan of Sugpiaq descent from Bristol Bay. He is also the co-founder of Mission Critical, is a combat veteran, an honored husband and a dedicated father.
The Trump administration is taking more steps to reverse onerous Biden-era public lands rules that limited oil and gas development across millions of federally managed acres in the West and Alaska.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is updating its planning framework with a new offshore planning area, called the High Arctic, off the north coast of Alaska, bringing the total number of Outer Continental Shelf planning areas to 27.
On Friday, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the launch of a public engagement process to develop the 11th National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, the beginning of a multi-year effort to shape the future of offshore energy development in the United States.
Boundaries for several existing planning areas are being revised to align with BOEM’s updated jurisdiction. Details on these updates will be outlined in an upcoming Federal Register notice and will be available on BOEM’s website.
The OCS is a major contributor to US energy production. As of April 1, BOEM manages 2,227 active oil and gas leases, covering approximately 12.1 million acres.
Of these, 469 leases are currently producing oil and gas. In fiscal year 2024, OCS leases generated approximately $7 billion in revenue for the federal government and state partners, supporting hundreds of thousands of American jobs and accounting for 14% of US oil production and 2% of natural gas output.
BOEM’s most recent resource assessment estimates that the Outer Continental Shelf holds a mean of 68.79 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and 229.03 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas.
Once finalized, the 11th National OCS Program will replace the current 2024–2029 leasing program, which includes three planned lease sales in the Gulf of America. BOEM is continuing to prepare for those sales while beginning work on the new program.
The action follows President Donald Trump’s issuance of Executive Order 14154, titled “Unleashing American Energy,” which outlines a federal policy to maximize energy production from domestic resources, including federal lands and waters.
In addition to the new “High Arctic” area being established, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House Office of Management and Budget posted notices this week indicating that two rules finalized last year by the Bureau of Land Management, are under formal review and are targeted for potential “rescission.”
One of the rules under scrutiny was finalized in June 2024 and applied to the roughly 245 million acres of land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. It mandated that conservation and landscape health as “co-equal” to other uses, such as drilling and mining, shifting federal land management priorities. Trump intends to reverse that public lands rule.
The second Biden rule pertains to Alaska. It limited oil and gas development within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the 23-million-acre region on Alaska’s North Slope that was originally set aside for oil and gas for national security.
The Interior Department said the move to rescind both rules is part of a broader push to expand domestic energy production in alignment with Trump’s Executive Order 14153, titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential,” signed on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, which aims to boost the state’s natural resource industry by reversing Biden-era lockdowns and restrictions that limited oil and gas extraction, among other activities. His order included:
Reinstating Oil and Gas Leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Rescinding Biden Administration cancellation of leases in ANWR’s 1002 Area Coastal Plain and directing the Secretary of the Interior to initiate additional leasing and issue permits for exploration and development.
Removing Restrictions in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A): Reversing Biden limits on drilling in the NPR-A and reinstating a Trump 1-era management plan that opened approximately 80% of the 23-million-acre reserve to leasing.
Prioritizing the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project: Supporting expediting permitting for the Alaska LNG Project, including pipeline and export infrastructure, to enhance energy production and export capabilities.
Revoking Offshore Drilling Bans: Overturning Biden’s moratorium on new offshore oil and gas drilling in areas like the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, aiming to open these regions for exploration.
Streamlining Permitting: Directing federal agencies to rescind or revise regulations inconsistent with resource development, expediting project approvals.
