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Secretary Burgum Testifies at the House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee Hearing on the FY2026 Budget, May 20, 2025

May 20, 2025 · The Union Herald · 2:25:43

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What happened

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum testified on May 20, 2025, before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies at the subcommittee’s hearing titled ‘Budget Hearing – Department of the Interior,’ carried in full by The Union Herald. The hearing record lists Burgum as the department’s witness on its fiscal year 2026 budget.

Why it matters

The Appropriations interior subcommittee writes the department’s annual funding bill — this hearing is where Burgum’s first budget as Secretary met the subcommittee that funds the bureaus he runs, from the National Park Service to the Bureau of Land Management.

Scoreboard watch

The fiscal year 2026 budget testimony is recorded here as the Secretary stated it, to be checked against the department’s enacted funding and subsequent record.

Sources: House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, ‘Budget Hearing – Department of the Interior,’ May 20, 2025 (full hearing as carried by The Union Herald, embedded above).