Trump picks ND Gov. Burgum for interior secretary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Trump made the announcement during a gala for the America First Policy Institute that was held Thursday evening at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
61% : Trump has heaped praise on Burgum, telling a campaign rally in May that the governor "probably knows more about energy than anybody I know," hinting that Burgum would have a prominent role in his administration.
52% : The governor is particularly close to Harold G. Hamm, the billionaire founder and chair of Continental Resources, one of the country's largest independent oil companies, who has donated nearly $5 million to Trump since 2023.
52% : The governor has said he views the pipeline as a tool to help North Dakota achieve his goal of carbon neutrality, which relies almost entirely on expensive and nascent technology to capture carbon emissions.
51% : The project is a 2,000-mile network of several pipelines that would collect carbon emissions from 57 ethanol plants scattered across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota and store them in an underground facility in a deep rock formation in central North Dakota.
50% : He was on the shortlist when Trump was considering a running mate.
47% : "I won't tell you his name -- it might be something like Burgum," Trump teased.
41% : In April, Burgum helped gather oil and gas executives at Mar-a-Lago for a now-infamous dinner, during which Trump suggested that they raise $1 billion for his campaign.
36% : Trump has promised to end those protections and relax regulations against pollution and harming wildlife.
35% : Trump is counting on using that land to "drill, drill, drill," something he said would cut energy bills in half.
32% : Trump told the executives they would save far more than that in tax breaks and legal fees after he repealed Biden's climate agenda, according to several people who were present and who requested anonymity to discuss a private event.

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