Trump To Tap North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum For Interior Chief

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : "He's going to head the Department of Interior, and he's going to be fantastic," Trump said, adding that he intended to make a formal announcement Friday.
61% : Trump made the announcement during a gala at his Mar-a-Lago private club in Florida.
59% : At the helm of the massive Interior Department, Burgum would play a key role in advancing Trump's pro-development, anti-conservation agenda.
39% : On the campaign trail, Trump -- who does not believe that human-caused carbon emissions are heating the globe, despite widespread scientific consensus -- pledged to "drill, baby, drill" and to "free up the vast stores of liquid gold on America's public land for energy development."
34% : An analysis in mid-2020 found that, by the numbers, Trump was the most anti-conservation president in U.S. history, having weakened safeguards for some 35 million acres -- nearly 1,000 times more than it protected.
23% : Burgum, a billionaire businessman and two-term governor, briefly ran against Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, but ultimately dropped out and threw his support behind the former president.
19% : He and the Republican party writ large have repeatedly accused the Biden administration of being "at war with" fossil fuels, ignoring the fact that under Joe Biden, oil and gas production soared to record highs.

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