Senate Confirms Burgum to Serve as Trump’s Interior Secretary – EVOL

The former two-term North Dakota governor will be chief orchestrator of president’s energy agenda.

Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has been confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of the Interior (DOI) where he will manage 500 million acres of public lands and 1.7 billion offshore acres in orchestrating President Donald Trump’s “unleash American energy” agenda.

The Senate endorsed his ascension to Interior Secretary on Jan. 30 in a 79–18 vote that saw few objections to the wealthy former software executive assuming the mantle of the 70,000-employee DOI and its $18 billion annual budget.

As DOI secretary, Burgum will set policy for 11 agencies and 14 offices, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.

“We live in a time of tremendous abundance, and we can access that abundance by prioritizing innovation over regulation,” he said at the confirmation hearing.

In naming him his DOI nominee during a Nov. 14 America First Policy Institute gala at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said Burgum is “going to be fantastic” in spearheading his administration’s drive “to do things with energy and land … that

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