OPINION | The president has delivered on every promise made to Colorado workers
Today, Trump Victory is hosting an “Open for Business Roundtable” in Fort Collins to highlight the promises President Trump has made and kept to American workers in the Centennial State.
Since President Trump’s election, 159,500 new jobs for Coloradans have been created. Last month, 7,200 jobs were added, further lowering the unemployment rate to 2.9 percent — the seventh-lowest in the United States. Colorado’s soaring job market has also led to strong wage growth, with earnings increasing over 5 percent year over year.
Nationally, there are more Americans working today than ever before. Our country has the lowest unemployment in a generation and there are more women working today than in the last 70 years. Small business optimism is off the charts and more than $800 billion in overseas earnings have been brought back to the United States since President Trump’s historic tax cuts were signed into law. Nearly 4,000 jobs in Colorado have been added due to tax reform, deregulation, and optimism under the Trump economy. To top it off, the United States is now an exporter of crude oil to a record 31 countries.
None of this is a surprise, of course, because President Trump has delivered on every single promise he’s made to the American worker. He’s committed to maintaining America’s energy independence and recognizes that a huge piece of that is strong, steady support for fossil fuels.
It’s astonishing then why nearly every 2020 Democrat is hell-bent on pushing a $32 trillion Green New Deal that would strip 2 million American natural oil and gas workers of their jobs.
The Democrats have gone so far to the left that they’re running on the promise of job loss. Colorado has a multi-billion dollar energy industry, and during the last debate Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrat field vowed to eliminate it entirely.
Contrary to what some in the mainstream media argue, the Democrats’ plan to ban all fossil fuels would not create a more energy independent America. It would do exactly the opposite and would cost nearly 250,000 Coloradans their jobs. The $24.1 billion in wages and almost $31.4 billion that the natural oil and gas industry pours into Colorado’s local economy would be wiped out, while local tax revenue that funds schools and fire departments would be eliminated. Key sources of income that hundreds of thousands of Coloradans depend on—like trucking services, retail, construction, transportation, and manufacturing—would also suffer.
Sadly, many Coloradans are already witnessing the consequences of the left’s anti-energy crusade firsthand. Last spring Colorado Democrats passed a new anti-energy law SB 181 that they are now using to drown energy development in red tape. Nearly a dozen municipalities have issued moratoriums on energy permits, jeopardizing countless jobs for working Americans. Make no mistake, if Colorado Democrats succeed with their assault on energy workers locally, other industries like agriculture and manufacturing that support hundreds of thousands of jobs will be next. Given the record of anti-energy Democrats in Colorado, when Joe Biden says he wants to eliminate fossil fuel development voters ought to take him seriously.
In the next Democrat debate slated for Sept. 12, you can expect Democrats to continue discounting the vital importance of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, President Trump will keep doubling down on his commitment to maintain America’s energy independence and protect jobs.
President Trump is building a legacy of promises made and promises kept to American families and businesses. He has the backs of businesses—small and large—that rely on fossil fuels and that are open for business because of them. Colorado’s economy is booming, and four more years of President Trump’s leadership means four more years of soaring job growth and rising wages. Let’s keep it that way by re-electing President Trump in 2020.
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