He approved Deb Haaland’s appointment as Secretary of the Interior by the US Senate on Monday.
The Senate confirmed the ratio of 51:40 Portfolio Manager position, Which made him a New Mexico Laguna Pueblo Democrat, the first local federal minister in US history.
Haaland is one of two who were first elected to the US Congress in 2018 Of original origin representative. Prior to his candidacy for the position of Minister of the Interior, he held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee in the House of Representatives. The minister thanked the Senate on Twitter for confirming his position. he wrote:
As the Minister of the Interior, I look forward to working with you. I’m ready to serve.
Tribal groups considered the strengthening of Haaland’s position to be of historical significance. It has been suggested that choosing a Native American politician means that Aboriginal people can now, for the first time, experience what it will be like when another Aboriginal man heads a ministry in which decisions are made about the nearly 600 federally recognized tribes.
In the US government structure, the Department of the Interior is primarily responsible for administering federal government-owned areas. This ministry, for example, decides whether to define nature reserves or issue permits for energy production. His responsibilities also extend to matters relating to the country’s nearly 1.9 million indigenous people.
