U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (R) defends the Trump administration’s decision to issue a stop-work order to Revolution Wind.

The offshore wind farm was expected to power hundreds of thousands of homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island beginning next year. The project was 80% done, according to Ørsted.

Burgum told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that they issued the stop-work order because of national security concerns.

“There are concerns about radar relative to undersea, and it doesn't have to be a large Russian sub, but undersea drones, the new technology,” Burgum said. “...People with, you know, bad ulterior motives to the United States would launch a swarm drone attack through a wind farm. The radar gets very distorted around detecting, if you're trying to have, you know, detect and a

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