{"id":2397411,"date":"2025-01-31T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-burgum-for-interior-secretary\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:23:27","slug":"senate-confirms-burgum-for-interior-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-burgum-for-interior-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Burgum For Interior Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-confirms-burgum-for-interior-secretary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2397411&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Senate has confirmed\u2063 Doug Burgum, the former Republican governor of North Dakota, as the\u200b 55th Secretary \u2062of the Department \u200dof the Interior with a decisive vote of 79 to 18. This confirmation follows his endorsement by the\u200c Senate \u200cEnergy \u200cand natural Resources Committee, where he received an 18-2 vote in \u2064favor. Burgum will replace Deb Haaland, \u2062who served during\u2063 President Biden&#8217;s management.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his confirmation, Burgum vowed to restore \u200dresponsible land management and enhance \u200cU.S.energy independence, asserting\u2063 the\u2062 importance of American energy production \u200cfor national prosperity and security. He criticized previous restrictions on energy advancement, claiming they merely shifted production \u200cto less \u200cenvironmentally responsible countries.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum&#8217;s agenda aligns closely with that of\u2062 former President\u2064 Trump, who \u200bemphasized\u2062 utilizing America&#8217;s natural resources \u2064in \u2064his second inaugural address. Burgum plans to confront what he describes\u2062 as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">excessive land\u200d restrictions established<\/a> by\u200c the Biden administration\u200d and \u2064to navigate potential legislative abuses associated with the Antiquities Act.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation comes amid ongoing debates about conservation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-led-house-panels-shift-gears-goes-full-throttle-for-domestic-energy-production\/\" title=\"GOP-Led House Panels Shift Gears, Goes Full Throttle for Domestic Energy Production\">federal land management<\/a>, especially the Biden administration&#8217;s goal of \u2063protecting 30% of the nation&#8217;s \u2062land and waterways by 2030. Burgum&#8217;s commitment\u200c to these\u2063 issues resonates\u200b with\u200c Republican senators who have expressed \u2064frustration with \u2062the current administration&#8217;s policies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Senate confirmed former North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum to serve as the 55th secretary of the Department of the Interior Thursday night with a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenateCloakroom\/status\/1885113504459305180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vote<\/a> of 79 to 18. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The Senate just confirmed former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for Interior Secretary. <\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a rundown in &#8294;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDRLST?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FDRLST<\/a>&#8297; of everything his predecessor did under Biden:  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K72jOVy8lO\">https:\/\/t.co\/K72jOVy8lO<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JusticeTristan\/status\/1885113124434350087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Burgum was recommended for confirmation by an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/5102402-senate-committees-advance-trump-nominees-energy-environment\/\">18-2 vote<\/a> in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week. Democrat Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, were the only two members of the panel to oppose the nominee. Burgum will now succeed former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who held the job throughout the Biden administration after just one term in the House.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump made harnessing the nation&rsquo;s rich natural resources to usher in a 21st-century American &ldquo;golden age&rdquo; a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/20\/7-highlights-from-trumps-inauguration-address-the-golden-age-of-america-begins-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">centerpiece<\/a> of his second inaugural address.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices,&rdquo; Trump said, announcing a formal declaration of a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/executive-disorder-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Executive disorder - Washington Examiner\">national energy emergency&#038;rdquo<\/a>; after four years of environmental zealotry shackled producers from cheap and reliable power generation. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will drill, baby, drill,&rdquo; Trump said, promising from the Capitol Rotunda that America &ldquo;will be a rich nation again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it,&rdquo; the president said. <\/p>\n<p>Burgum, who completed his second term as North Dakota governor in December, pledged at his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/16\/doug-burgum-pledges-to-restore-responsible-land-management-to-interior-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmation hearing<\/a> days before Trump&rsquo;s inauguration to restore responsible land management to the Interior Department and reclaim &ldquo;global energy dominance&rdquo; as &ldquo;the foundation of American prosperity, affordability for American families, and unrivaled national security.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, America produces energy cleaner, smarter, and safer than anywhere in the world,&rdquo; said Burgum in his opening statement. &ldquo;When energy production is restricted in America, it doesn&rsquo;t reduce demand. It just shifts productions to countries like Russia and Iran, whose autocratic leaders not only don&rsquo;t care about the environment, but they use their revenues from energy sales to fund wars against us and our allies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As interior secretary, Burgum will execute Trump&rsquo;s agenda outlined in a series of immediate <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/21\/trump-declares-energy-emergency-to-reverse-bidens-assault-on-u-s-power-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive orders<\/a> to unlock the nation&rsquo;s rich reserves from decades of restrictions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/federal-oil-leases-slow-to-a-trickle-under-biden-11662230816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According&nbsp;<\/a>to The Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration issued oil and gas leases on fewer acres than every president through his first two years since Harry Truman. The Washington Free Beacon&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-says-its-approved-more-oil-drilling-permits-than-the-trump-admin-its-own-data-show-otherwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;last summer the &ldquo;administration has approved more than 1,000 fewer oil permits in its first three years than the Trump administration did in the same timeframe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But while Trump is eager to transform America into the world&rsquo;s supplier of oil and natural gas, Republicans in the Senate seemed just as enthusiastic about the incoming Interior secretary&rsquo;s commitment to peel back the Biden administration&rsquo;s excessive land grabs. New restrictions on public lands have <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2024\/03\/04\/dolores-river-national-monument-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">frustrated<\/a> residents primarily in western states while the federal government <a href=\"https:\/\/idahocapitalsun.com\/2024\/11\/25\/federal-forest-managers-are-tangled-in-their-own-bureaucracy-to-mitigate-wildfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">neglects<\/a> routine maintenance such as proper wildfire management.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, the Republican chairman who presided over Burgum&rsquo;s hearing, opened the question period with a condemnation of Democrat presidents exploiting the 1906 Antiquities Act to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-designation-of-million-acre-monument-is-blatant-abuse-of-presidential-power\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s Monument Designation: Clear Presidential Power Abuse\">establish quasi-national parks<\/a> without congressional approval. Biden abused the century-old law to establish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2025\/01\/07\/fact-sheet-president-biden-establishes-chuckwalla-and-sattitla-highlands-national-monuments-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 new national monuments<\/a> and expand several others to cover regions larger than surrounding national parks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These have become something of a political football,&rdquo; Lee said, referencing the monument designations of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Biden&rsquo;s reinstatement of their Obama-era boundaries. The monuments cover more than three million acres, making them&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/13\/why-joe-bidens-expansion-of-bears-ears-national-monument-is-an-aggressive-land-grab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">larger<\/a>&nbsp;than Utah&rsquo;s national parks at Zion and Bryce Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is the size of two Delawares within my state that have been moved into this very restricted use classification,&rdquo; Lee added with the request that Burgum meet with constituents whose objections were &ldquo;ignored by the Biden administration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Burgum agreed with the senator&rsquo;s assessment about the presidential abuse of the 1906 law. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Its original intention was really to protect as it says, &lsquo;antiquities,&rsquo; areas like, I would say, Indiana Jones-type archeological protections,&rdquo; said the former North Dakota governor. <\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s aggressive pursuit to lock up 30 percent of the nation&rsquo;s land and waterways by 2030, known as the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/5\/7\/22423139\/biden-30-by-30-conservation-initiative-historic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">30 by 30<\/a>&rdquo; initiative, culminated in nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/17\/good-riddance-deb-haaland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">700 million acres<\/a> placed under additional federal protections.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as Interior Secretary with a 79-18 vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2397412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Arches-e1738027428507.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[28356,16629,45553,5894,3740],"class_list":["post-2397411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-burgum","tag-confirmation","tag-interior-secretary","tag-politics","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Arches-e1738027428507.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397415,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397411\/revisions\/2397415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}