← Chronicle · Confirmation · February 3, 2025

Chris Wright Confirmed as Secretary of Energy, 59–38

Senate vote: 59–38

Chris Wright was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Energy on February 3, 2025, by a vote of 59–38.

The mission that started here is the Energy portfolio this chronicle tracks under the Energy & Permitting hub: energy production and the administration’s energy-dominance program, which Wright has described in terms of all affordable and reliable sources.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, February 3, 2025 (vote and date banked in this site’s research cluster B); Department of Energy.