Trump Administration Grants Pipeline Permits Without All His Promised Conditions
- President had said Americans should get ‘significant’ profits
- Keystone, Dakota pipelines approved without promised changes
Trump Says Keystone XL Approval Is a 'Great Day for Jobs'
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President Donald Trump vowed to win a "better deal" for Americans before approving the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access oil pipelines, promising to extract concessions and force the builders to use U.S. steel.
Now his administration has authorized both projects -- with those conditions mostly unmet. The outcomes illustrate the limits of the president’s power and poke holes in the carefully crafted image of Trump as a dealmaker so good at twisting arms that he wrote a book about his negotiating prowess.