Trump picks Burgum to head Department of the Interior

By Emily Hallas | Washington Examiner

President-elect Donald Trump selected Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) to be secretary of the Department of the Interior in a surprise announcement Thursday.

Trump made the announcement during an event at his Mar-a-Lago resort, saying that he had planned to reveal the nomination on Friday.

“We’re going to turn our country around,” the president-elect said Thursday evening as he commented that the results of the election, with him winning a second term, would stop another 1929 economic recession from happening. 

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