{"id":5522,"date":"2025-01-30T03:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-tees-up-burgum-for-confirmation-vote-for-interior-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T03:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:20:39","slug":"senate-tees-up-burgum-for-confirmation-vote-for-interior-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-tees-up-burgum-for-confirmation-vote-for-interior-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate tees up Burgum for confirmation vote for Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted 78-20 Wednesday to invoke cloture on the nomination of former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department.  The Senate is expected to vote tomorrow whether to confirm Burgum&#8217;s nomination. It would put the former governor in the department&#8217;s top chair as the Trump administration is pushing for spending freezes that would halt Interior&#8217;s payments to tribal communities and certain energy programs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/29\/congress\/senate-tees-up-burgum-for-confirmation-vote-for-interior-00201187\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted 78-20 Wednesday to invoke cloture on the nomination of former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department. The Senate is expected to vote tomorrow whether to confirm Burgum&#8217;s nomination. It would put the former governor in the department&#8217;s top chair as the Trump administration is pushing for spending freezes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}