Chris Wright: “A brief military operation, arrest two criminals and now we have leverage over the government. It’s an existing…”

“We are reallocating funds that were already dedicated towards the United States electricity grid, but just driving them towards reliability and affordability instead of making things more expensive for political posturing,” Wright said.

“Energy is life,” Wright said in a news conference near Allentown, where he met with Lehigh Valley leaders.

Energy is different,' Wright said. 'It’s just central to economies to security to foreign relations.

“We lost our way, and we started to spend money only based on decarbonization goals, forgetting American people, forgetting taxpayers, forgetting jobs and opportunity,” Wright said.