Former North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum is now officially Interior Secretary, with help from Arizona’s U.S. senators and a couple of its tribes.
Democrat Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly sided with the Senate Republican majority to confirm Burgum as the 55th secretary of the Interior. In overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion, the U.S. Senate approved him in a 79-18 vote on Thursday.
Seventeen Democrats plus Bernie Sanders opposed the nominee, while 25 other Democrats backed President Donald Trump’s pick to run the federal agency responsible for managing the nation’s natural and cultural resources.
About 180 federally recognized tribes from across Indian Country endorsed him for the job, including the Navajo Nation and San Carlos Apache Tribe.
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