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Secretary Burgum Testifies at the House Natural Resources Hearing on the Interior Department's FY2026 Budget Request, Jun. 12, 2025

June 12, 2025 · House Natural Resources Committee Democrats · 4:05:01

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What happened

The House Committee on Natural Resources held an oversight hearing on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in room 1324 of the Longworth House Office Building, titled ‘Examining the President’s FY 2026 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior,’ at which Secretary Doug Burgum testified, according to the committee’s published description of the hearing. The committee’s upload is in two parts; the opening segment is recorded in this site’s index as an alternate source for this page.

Why it matters

The Natural Resources Committee is the House authorizing committee for the Interior Department — its budget oversight hearing is where the Secretary answers for the department’s lands, energy, and tribal programs before the House panel that legislates on them.

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 Committee on Natural Resources, ‘Examining the President’s FY2026 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior,’ June 12, 2025 (full hearing as published by the committee’s Democrats, embedded above).