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Interior secretary nom Doug Burgum will also lead new National Energy Council, Trump announces

By
Diana Glebova
Published Nov. 15, 2024, 3:40 p.m. ET

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will lead the newly-established National Energy Council while serving as interior secretary.

The council, Trump wrote in a statement, “will consist of all Departments and Agencies involved in the permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation, of ALL forms of American Energy.”

Doug Burgum shaking hands with Donald Trump in front of a microphone at a Caucus Night watch party, with Kathryn Burgum applauding in the background
President-elect Donald Trump announced that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will lead the newly-established National Energy Council while serving as interior secretary. AFP via Getty Images

Trump, 78, revealed that Burgum, 68, would be his interior secretary pick during remarks at a Mar-a-Lago fete Thursday night.

“He’s going to head the Department of Interior, and he’s going to be fantastic,” the president-elect told supporters of the North Dakotan, who unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.

Burgum’s short-lived presidential campaign heavily focused on his energy experience while governing North Dakota and his years as the successful owner of Great Plains Software, which he sold to Microsoft for over $1 billion in 2001.

Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, speaking at a podium during Donald Trump's final campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Burgum’s presidential campaign heavily focused on his energy experience while governing North Dakota and his years as the owner of Great Plains Software. AFP via Getty Images

Trump has indicated Burgum was on the shortlist to be the GOP vice presidential candidate, before Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) was selected. 

Burgum was long considered the favorite to head the Department of Energy, with Interior suggested as a secondary possibility.

There was also speculation that Trump would create a special “energy czar” position for Burgum, similar to the “border czar” role being filled by former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan.

Trump has vowed to slash American energy prices in half within his first year back in the White House. He also said he would instruct workers to “drill, baby, drill” and embrace hydraulic fracking to reduce America’s reliance on foreign energy.

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum in tuxedo, speaking with the media at the America First Policy Institute gala
Burgum was long considered the favorite to head the Department of Energy, and was on the shortlist to be the GOP vice presidential candidate. REUTERS

“This Council will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy, and by focusing on INNOVATION over longstanding, but totally unnecessary, regulation,” Trump said in his Friday statement.

“With U.S. [sic] Energy Dominance, we will drive down Inflation, win the A.I. [sic] arms race with China (and others), and expand American Diplomatic Power to end Wars all across the World.”