President Donald Trump launched his second administration vowing to unlock Alaska’s energy potential and quash an “assault” on the state’s sovereignty.
There has been a steady drumbeat of actions on Alaska since Trump signed a January 2025 executive order devoted solely to the state: pushing Trump’s energy dominance agenda during a high-profile visit from the National Energy Dominance Council to Alaska, advancing a 211-mile mining road and approving exploratory drilling and seismic activity in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, among other measures.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican whose term ends in December, recently proposed a 90 percent property tax cut for the long-planned Alaska LNG project, which includes an 807-mile pipeline and an export facility, in order to boost its chances.
But the project’s future is anything but certain, and the state budget — which is heavily reliant on oil and gas — is in a jam.
