2026年9月30日 / 美国东部时间下午6:55 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
特朗普总统周三宣布计划，由韩国投资开发阿拉斯加天然气出口项目，该项目长期得到共和党参议员丹·沙利文的支持，沙利文目前正在该州进行竞争激烈的连任竞选。
这是三天来特朗普第二次突出宣传计划中的外国投资，地点均为共和党参议院候选人处于激烈选战的州。特朗普周一也曾在椭圆形办公室宣布类似消息，涉及爱荷华州一座大型钢铁厂，该州同样是共和党需要捍卫参议院席位的州。
该项目包括一条807英里长的天然气管道，将阿拉斯加石油资源丰富的北坡与阿拉斯加南部的液化天然气出口终端连接起来。白宫表示，该项目最终将通过提供可靠且安全的能源供应，降低该州居民的能源成本。美国商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克表示，液化天然气也可出口至亚洲。
官员们在椭圆形办公室的活动中表示，管道建设将耗时三年，液化天然气出口将在那之后两年启动——但这完全取决于能否获得足额融资。
目前尚不清楚韩国政府将以多快的速度批准该项目，以及其计划投入多少资金。
特朗普表示，这些项目将获得韩国近2000亿美元的资金，其中包括德克萨斯州的一座发电厂和八座“大型”核电站。目前尚不清楚这些投资的更多细节。
此次投资来自2025年美韩贸易协定中的承诺，该协定包含美国将对韩国汽车、汽车零部件及其他产品降低关税，以换取韩国向美国投资3500亿美元的承诺。
特朗普将此次宣布归功于其颇具争议的关税战略，他表示：“我们与韩国的贸易协定下，他们需要投资数千亿美元。”
特朗普在椭圆形办公室的活动中对沙利文表示感谢。
“他一直很受我重视，长期以来在阿拉斯加问题上也是如此，”特朗普说道。他还补充道：“所有这些能源项目都由我牵头，我和丹·沙利文合作完成了它们。”
沙利文表示：“一旦这个项目完工，我们的发展将无可限量。”
“总统先生，这对阿拉斯加来说意义重大，”沙利文说道，并补充说他一直在“不懈地”推进该项目。
在中期选举前夕，特朗普的支持率已跌至近乎历史低点，共和党人还面临着选民历来会在中期选举中反对执政党这一不利因素。此时特朗普大力推进在有助于共和党候选人的地区落实大型项目。
就连特朗普本人也开始承认，共和党在11月之后保住国会两院控制权的过程可能将举步维艰，但他将此归咎于其政府在宣传政绩方面做得不够。
“我在解释政策方面做得非常糟糕，”这位总统在白宫东厅的一场活动中说道，该活动是在阿拉斯加投资项目宣布之前举行的。
他承诺将在接下来的30天里花费大量时间在各地开展中期选举竞选活动，以扭转这一局面——不过他此次巡回竞选的首站将是德克萨斯州、阿拉巴马州、俄亥俄州和内布拉斯加州，这些州通常都是坚定的共和党票仓。
沙利文是连任两届的参议员，他一直是阿拉斯加天然气项目的坚定倡导者，并鼓励韩国参与投资。此次他面临着民主党前众议员玛丽·佩尔托拉的激烈竞争。
周三的阿拉斯加活动两天前，特朗普刚刚宣布由一家印度工业集团旗下的明尼苏达州公司在爱荷华州建设一座价值150亿美元的钢铁厂。
在爱荷华州，共和党众议员阿什利·辛森与民主党州众议员乔希·图雷克正在竞争激烈的参议院席位，该席位由即将退休的两届共和党参议员乔尼·恩斯特空出。辛森在当天的椭圆形办公室宣布活动中发表了讲话。
阿拉斯加和爱荷华州都是特朗普在历次总统竞选期间轻松获胜的州，目前也是民主党在2026年中期选举中瞄准共和党掌控的参议院席位的目标州，此次中期选举距离现在不到五周。
民主党需要在100个席位的参议院中净增四个席位，才能超过共和党成为多数党。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-announces-54-billion-south-korean-investment-in-alaska-natural-gas-project/
特朗普宣布韩国向阿拉斯加天然气项目投资540亿美元
Trump unveils South Korean investment in pipeline in Alaska, site of a tight Senate race
September 30, 2026 / 6:55 PM EDT / CBS/AP
President Trump announced plans Wednesday for South Korea to invest in exporting natural gas from Alaska, a project long backed by Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is in a competitive reelection contest there.
It marks the second time in three days that the president has sought to highlight planned foreign investments in states where Republican Senate candidates are in tight election campaigns. Mr. Trump made a similar Oval Office announcement on Monday for a massive steel plant in Iowa, another state where Republicans are defending a Senate seat.
The project consists of an 807-mile natural gas pipeline connecting Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope to a liquefied natural gas export terminal in southern Alaska. It will eventually reduce energy costs for the state’s residents by providing a reliable and secure supply, the White House said. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said liquefied natural gas could also be exported to Asia.
Officials said during the Oval Office event that building the pipeline will take three years and that exports of liquefied natural gas would begin two years after that — but that was dependent on financing coming through fully.
It was not clear how quickly South Korea’s government would approve the project and how much it planned to spend.
The pipeline is part of a series of projects that Mr. Trump said would get nearly $200 billion in South Korean funds, including a power plant in Texas and eight “large-scale” nuclear power plants. Further details on those investments are not clear.
The investment comes from pledges made as part of a 2025 trade deal with South Korea, which included promises of $350 billion in investments in the United States in exchange for lower U.S. tariffs on South Korean cars, auto parts and other products.
Mr. Trump credited his controversial tariff strategy for making the announcement possible, saying, “Our trade agreement with South Korea, they have to invest hundreds of billions of dollars.”
The president credited Sullivan during the Oval Office event.
“He’s got my ear, and he’s had my ear for a long time on Alaska,” Mr. Trump said. The president added that “all these energy projects are all mine, and I got ’em done working with Dan Sullivan.”
Sullivan said, “the sky is the limit when we get this project done.”
“Mr. President, this one is huge for Alaska,” Sullivan said, adding that he’d been working on it “relentlessly.”
The push to deliver big projects in areas where GOP candidates could use a boost comes as Mr. Trump’s approval ratings have sunk to nearly historic lows ahead of midterm elections. Republicans are also contending with voters’ historical tendency to reject whichever party controls the White House during the midterms.
Even Mr. Trump himself has begun acknowledging that Republicans could face an uphill climb in their push to retain control of both chambers of Congress after November, but suggests it is because his administration hasn’t done enough to promote its accomplishments.
“I’ve done a very bad job of explaining,” the president said during an event in the White House’s East Room, which came before the subsequent announcement on the Alaska investment.
He’s promised to help rectify that by spending much of the next 30 days on the road, campaigning ahead of the midterms — though he is beginning that swing with trips to Texas, Alabama, Ohio and Nebraska, which are all normally solidly red states.
Sullivan, who has been a persistent advocate for the Alaska natural gas project and has encouraged South Korean investment, is a two-term senator facing a competitive challenge from Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola.
Wednesday’s Alaska event came two days after Mr. Trump announced plans for a $15 billion steel plant to be built in Iowa by a Minnesota company owned by an Indian industrial conglomerate.
In Iowa, Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson is in a close U.S. Senate contest with Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek for the seat being vacated by retiring two-term Republican Sen. Joni Ernst. Hinson spoke in the Oval Office during the announcement.
Alaska and Iowa — where Mr. Trump won comfortably each time he has run for president — are among the states where Democrats are targeting Republican-held Senate seats in the 2026 midterm elections, less than five weeks away.
Democrats need to gain a net of four seats in the 100-member Senate to overtake Republicans in the majority.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-announces-54-billion-south-korean-investment-in-alaska-natural-gas-project/
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