Senate confirms Burgum as Interior secretary

By The Hill | Created at 2025-01-31 00:15:45 | Updated at 2025-01-31 03:19:33 3 hours ago

The Senate confirmed former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as Interior secretary Thursday in a 79-18 vote, with the majority of Senate Democrats joining every Republican in the chamber. Burgum, a one-time candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination-turned-visible Trump campaign surrogate, has been among the president’s least controversial nominees. He advanced out of the Senate Energy…

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