July 31, 2025 - Epoch Times
02:26
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| We just landed the largest aluminum smeltering company that's going to be built in the state of Oklahoma. | |
| They haven't built a new smelter for 45 years. | |
| We're leaning into critical minerals in our state. | |
| We want Oklahoma to be the critical mineral capital of the United States. | |
| We've got tons of companies that are moving here for new processes. | |
| And things that Americans take for granted, we have to bring that supply chain closer to home, whether it's batteries or magnets and the things that go into every part of our life, chips, all those kind of things. | |
| You know, you're also divesting state assets and pension holdings that might be compromised by a future Pacific conflict. | |
| I mean, there's also the state procurement supply chains themselves, right, that you're looking at. | |
| There's a lot of elements in here. | |
| That's right, yeah. | |
| I mean, when we're asking those state agencies to really look at their procurement and who they're buying from and what that looks like to make sure that we can source from other sources, even if that's maybe the best deal right now, we have to have backups. | |
| We're just trying to think ahead. | |
| You can't start that process if there was, God forbid, some kind of conflict. | |
| How hard is it to enact or how hard was it or is it to enact this actually? | |
| Because it's one thing to say it. | |
| It's another thing to get the system to actually do it. | |
| If you don't have to deal with the legislature, you don't have to pass laws. | |
| It makes it a little easier on the executive branch. | |
| So the agencies that we can control, and when a governor puts an executive order in place, then those agencies, that becomes something that they have got to do. | |
| It becomes kind of a law for them to focus on. | |
| Now, the problem with executive orders versus legislation is the next governor, if he doesn't continue that executive order, it goes away. | |
| And so that's the problem that you deal with. | |
| So obviously I always am encouraging my legislature to codify some of these make-sense executive orders that I've put in place. | |
| But for speed, we're always trying to do things quicker. | |
| I come from the business world. | |
| We want Oklahoma to move at the speed of business. | |
| And sometimes democracy and the debating of bills and writing bills and then you've got all the detractors and you've got lobbyists trying to kill the bill that is going to affect them. | |
| But as an executive, we know how to make Oklahoma top 10 and how to protect Oklahoma in the future. |
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