← Chronicle · Confirmation · February 1, 2025

Doug Burgum Confirmed as Secretary of the Interior, 79–18

Senate vote: 79–18

Doug Burgum was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of the Interior on February 1, 2025, by a vote of 79–18 — one of the widest margins of the 2025 confirmation wave. The former North Dakota governor became the administration’s senior public-lands and energy official in the cabinet.

The mission that started here is the Interior portfolio this chronicle tracks under the Energy & Permitting hub: public lands, energy production on federal land, and permitting. Burgum also chairs the National Energy Council, and his signature theme in the role is American Energy Dominance.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, February 1, 2025 (vote and date banked in this site’s research cluster A); Department of the Interior.