In a partial video of a speech to Interior Department staff, the new secretary told staffers that “cutting red tape” will benefit them personally. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum assured his ...

Burgum also issued an order to implement Trump’s reversal of former President Biden’s move to bar drilling off the East and West coasts and parts of Alaska’s coast. “Today marks the ...

The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as Interior secretary on Thursday, making the former North Dakota governor the nation's point person for public land management and President Donald Trump’s ...

The vote was 79-18. More than half of Senate Democrats joined all 53 Republicans in voting for Burgum. Burgum, 68, is an ultra-wealthy software industry entrepreneur who came from a small North ...

The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as interior secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump tapped the North Dakota billionaire to spearhead the Republican administration’s ambitions to ...