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Wright After the State of the Union: Trump's Agenda Is Lower Costs and Higher Wages Through American Energy

February 26, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:10:19

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the Daily Caller on media row that being in the room for the State of the Union was electric, that he had high hopes and high expectations, and that President Trump amazingly exceeded them, according to Wright. He described the address as optimistic, focused on America and Americans, celebrating American heroes and the American dream, and outlining barriers to that dream and what the president is doing about them, according to the interview.

Wright said the president has one constituency — the American people — and is not afraid to step on toes for their progress, according to Wright. He said he did not help write the speech but that the president is passionate about energy and understands energy is not one industry but the industry that enables everything else, according to the interview.

Wright summarized Trump’s agenda simply: lower costs for Americans and raise their wages, with growing American energy as one of the key ways to do it, according to Wright. He closed by contrasting what he called a restored belief in a great nation and free people with the top-down big-government pessimism he attributed to the Biden and Obama administrations, and said the president works seven days a week because he loves the country, which inspires the cabinet, according to Wright.

Why it matters

The post-address interview is Wright’s concise statement of how energy policy fits the president’s cost-and-wages agenda, delivered in the State of the Union’s immediate aftermath.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Daily Caller after President Trump’s State of the Union - February 24, 2026”, 2026-02-26 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-02-26). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.