Trump chose the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Energy Council

US President-elect Donald Trump announced that North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum will head the US Department of the Interior. and the National Energy Board. CNN writes this on Friday, November 15.

“Burgum is going to lead the Department of the Interior and the National Energy Council and he’s going to be great,” Trump said.

As Trump noted, the National Energy Council will unite all departments related to the production and sale of energy resources.

The US Department of the Interior is primarily concerned with the use of federal lands and the extraction of natural resources. His department manages nearly a thousand national reserves and parks. In addition, the department administers various programs related to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Hawaiians.

Earlier in the day, Burgum spoke to reporters at the Policy Institute of America gala about the connection between energy and national security with conflicts abroad, as well as the US-China war against AI.

“We have these wars abroad — both with Russia and with Iran — where they’re funding a war against us with their might and the failed sanctions of the Biden-Harris administration, where they, you know, are their incomes really increased during this period to fund terrorism and fund war,” he said.

Burgum is the governor of North Dakota. He advocates greater oversight of funds allocated to Ukraine and says China, not Russia, is the greater threat to the United States. However, he said that Russia’s victory would mean the strengthening of China.

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