Washington, DC (KINY) - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, secured investments for Alaska in the Energy and Water; Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD); and State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) Appropriations Act of 2024, which were approved by the committee will now advance to the full Senate for consideration.
Congress should take promptly five actions to get government out of the way of private sector job-creation: enact the New Flat Tax, free America’s energy markets, support free trade through international negotiation, halt unwarranted overregulation of markets, and repeal the government’s labor price-fixing for federal construction.
When Gov. Mike Dunleavy took office in 2018, the State of Alaska had spent more than $250 million on the Alaska LNG project with nothing having been built to show for it. The project did not have its federal permits, its cost of supply was uneconomic, and the now state-owned Alaska Gasline Developme.