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Secretary Burgum Testifies at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Hearing on the Interior Department Budget, Apr. 29, 2026

April 29, 2026 · PBS NewsHour · 2:26:40

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What happened

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum testified on the Interior Department budget before the Senate Energy Committee on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, carried live in full by PBS NewsHour; the Forbes Breaking News carry of the same hearing, in which Burgum defended the administration’s Interior budget, is recorded in this site’s index as an alternate source.

Why it matters

The authorizing committee’s fiscal year 2027 budget hearing closes the spring 2026 oversight round for Burgum — the same panel, and the same budget questions, as the June 2025 hearing paged on this site.

Scoreboard watch

The fiscal year 2027 budget testimony is recorded here as the Secretary stated it, to be checked against the department’s enacted funding and subsequent record.

Sources: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, hearing on the Interior Department budget, April 29, 2026 (full hearing as carried by PBS NewsHour, embedded above).