Richard Blumenthal
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Connecticut, in a press release
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Doug Burgum said the offshore-wind pause, which included Revolution Wind, addressed emerging national-security risks from evolving adversary technology and projects near East Coast population centers.
“Once again, a court has struck down Trump’s senseless stop work order on Revolution Wind because the administration has failed to produce a single shred of evidence to support its fantastical claims.”
Press release issued after the second preliminary injunction. Blumenthal says the administration failed to support its claims, and the release notes that he had written to Interior Secretary Burgum seeking answers about the national-security concerns without receiving a response.
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Blumenthal says the administration supplied no evidence for its claims and calls the order senseless. He rejects the basis for the action itself, which is more than a dispute over terminology.