Trump taps North Dakota Gov. Burgum to lead Interior Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

94% : "We're going to do things with energy and with land ... that is going to be incredible," Trump said, adding that Burgum would be "fantastic" in the role and that a more "formal announcement" would be made Friday.
66% : After Trump asked oil industry executives to help steer $1 billion toward his campaign, Burgum talked extensively with oil donors and CEOs, and he helped lead the campaign's development of its energy policy.
53% : "Some Burgum allies had initially pushed for Trump to appoint the North Dakota governor as an "energy czar" that coordinated energy policy across multiple agencies, including the Energy and Interior departments.
48% : He stressed, however, that the goal wouldn't be achieved via government mandates or the elimination of fossil fuels.
47% : Trump has said repeatedly that scrapping rules that inhibit drilling, the burning of fossil fuels and the export of liquefied natural gas will be a top priority for his administration.
46% : Burgum, 68, suspended his long-shot presidential bid last year and quickly endorsed Trump, developing a strong personal and political relationship with the president-elect.
43% : Burgum has said he believes human-caused climate change is real, and he has supported some of the clean-energy subsidies Trump is seeking to jettison.
39% : The two-term North Dakota governor won the office in a major upset in 2016, riding the same wave of antiestablishment sentiment that propelled Trump to the White House that year.
29% : Trump made the announcement during a gala for the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank, at his private Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.
24% : But others around Trump, particularly those who question mainstream climate science, are pushing to erase all the Biden-era clean-energy subsidies on the grounds that they cost taxpayers money and undercut Trump's vision for vastly expanded drilling.
8% : At a fundraiser in Palm Beach in May, Burgum told donors that Trump would halt President Joe Biden's "attack" on fossil fuels, according to a recording of his remarks obtained by The Washington Post.

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