Senate confirms Doug Burgum as Trump’s interior secretary tasked with boosting fossil fuel production to achieve ‘energy dominance’
Burgum, 68, is an ultra-wealthy software industry entrepreneur who came from a small North Dakota farming community, where he worked at his family’s grain elevator.
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