Whereas the media has been largely targeted on the nominations of Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and RFK Jr., different nominees reminiscent of Lee Zeldin for EPA and now Doug Burgum for Inside Secretary, have sailed by means of the affirmation course of.
Burgum was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday with bipartisan assist.
Like Lee Zeldin at EPA, Burgum’s affirmation is vital to advancing Trump’s home vitality coverage. Burgum shall be an essential ally and advocate.
The Hill stories:
Senate confirms Burgum as Inside secretary
The Senate confirmed former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as Inside secretary Thursday in a 79-18 vote, with the vast majority of Senate Democrats becoming a member of each Republican within the chamber.
Burgum, a one-time candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination-turned-visible Trump marketing campaign surrogate, has been among the many president’s least controversial nominees. He superior out of the Senate Vitality and Pure Sources Committee final week in an almost unanimous vote, with solely Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) voting towards the nomination.
Wyden, the mastermind of the renewable vitality tax credit throughout the Inflation Discount Act, cited President Trump’s opposition to the cuts in opposing each Burgum and Vitality secretary nominee Chris Wright, who can be unlikely to face important Senate opposition…
As Inside secretary, Burgum will oversee environmental coverage and the nation’s public lands. Trump has vowed on the marketing campaign path and in his early actions as president to broaden oil and fuel growth and roll again environmental protections enacted beneath the Biden administration.
Congratulations to Secretary Burgum.
— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) January 31, 2025
BREAKING: Doug Burgum has been confirmed because the Secretary of Inside pic.twitter.com/4vLD2xNqLG
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 30, 2025
✅ CONFIRMED: Doug Burgum because the fifty fifth Secretary of the Inside pic.twitter.com/2O4XksFKD6
— Fast Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 30, 2025
The Trump workforce is coming collectively. Doug Burgum will do an ideal job on this function.
