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The Senate considered President Donald Trump’s nomination of Douglas Burgum to serve as secretary of the Interior. Under the leadership of the secretary, the Department of the Interior (DOI) is responsible for protecting the country’s most iconic and treasured public lands while working with local and Native communities. Billionaire Doug Burgum helped organize the April 2024 oil and gas executives dinner, during which then-candidate Trump reportedly asked oil and gas executives for $1 billion toward his campaign in exchange for rolling back environmental protections. As the head of DOI and leader of the newly-formed National Energy Council (NEC), Burgum has carried out Trump’s unpopular and dangerous dirty energy agenda. Burgum’s track record of putting polluters over people and public lands is an alarming indication of his willingness to ignore the interests of the American people, to the detriment of our natural and cultural resources that he is charged with stewarding. On January 30, the Senate confirmed Douglas Burgum to be secretary of the Interior by a vote of 80-17 (Senate roll call vote 26). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE.
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