Blackletter

Today we're going to talk about the power grid. A new executive order from President Donald Trump is going to prohibit United States companies who work in the power grid from buying and putting in electrical equipment that has been made outside of the U.S. Worried about the threat of foreign countries willfully manipulating our power grid with "potentially catastrophic effects", this would present significant risks to our economy, human health and safety and would render the United States less capable of acting in defense of itself and allies. This executive order gives the Secretary of Energy 150 days from now (September of this year) to issue specific rules and identify the countries that are "adversaries", the countries where you couldn't buy equipment from.  American companies in U.S. allied countries, companies in U.S. allied countries now will likely have the only opportunity to supply power grid companies with that kind of material and supplies.