Senate Confirms Burgum to Serve as Trump’s Interior Secretary

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

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, testifies before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 16, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

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.