Posted originally on the CTH on November 15, 2024 | Sundance

President Trump has announced the nomination of North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to head the Department of the Interior and also Chairman of a newly formed cabinet-level National Energy Council (energy Czar).

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Very interesting move, not in the appointment of Burgum, but in the duality of a method to tear apart the Dept of Interior Silo.

As the American people are starting to become aware of a return to civics, the President of the United States has absolute power within the Executive branch and absolute immunity for everything he defines as an official act of his office.

By appointing Burgum as the Interior Secretary and simultaneously the appointed energy-sector representative of the president, carrying the full weight and authority therein, there is no way for the institutional bureaucracy of the climate change officials inside the agency to block any changes decreed by President Trump within the mandate of the Energy Czar.

Secretary Burgum will sit at the top of the Dept of Interior organization, AND Czar Burgum will sit inside every agency, office, and subsidiary department that has anything to do with “American Energy” production/regulation.

A very strong power move. I like it.

Burgum would lead a new National Energy Council comprising all agencies and departments involved in the production, regulation and transportation of “ALL forms of American Energy.” … “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.”

Recap of Appointments So Far:

• White House chief of staff: Susie Wiles
• Secretary of state: Marco Rubio
• Attorney general: Matt Gaetz
• Deputy attorney general: Todd Blanche
• HHS secretary: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• U.N. ambassador: Elise Stefanik
• “Border czar”: Tom Homan
• Defense secretary: Pete Hegseth
• Secretary of veteran’s affairs: Doug Collins
• National security adviser: Michael Waltz
• Interior secretary: Doug Burgum
• White House counsel: William McGinley
• Solicitor general: Dean John Sauer
• Secretary of homeland security: Kristi Noem
• CIA director: John Ratcliffe
• Director of national intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard
• EPA administrator: Lee Zeldin
• U.S. ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee
• U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York: Jay Clayton
• Department of Government Efficiency: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
• Deputy chief of staff: Dan Scavino
• Deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser: Stephen Miller
• Deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs: James Blair
• Deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel: Taylor Budowich
• Presidential Personnel Office head: Sergio Gor
• White House communications director: Steven Cheung

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