Updated: 3 Feb 2021, 21:42
DEB Haaland was picked by President Joe Biden to run the Department of the Interior.
The politician has been the US Representative from New Mexico s 1st congressional district since 2019.
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Who is Deb Haaland?
Born December 2, 1960, Debra Haaland is an American politician who serves as the representative for New Mexico s 1 congressional district.
Haaland was the former chairwoman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.
She is one of the first two Native American women elected to the US Congress.
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Haaland is the US Representative from New Mexico s 1st congressional districtCredit: Splash News
If confirmed, she would be the first Native American to head the department as well as be the first Native American Cabinet secretary in US history.
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President Joe Biden on Friday received his second letter of the week from lawmakers in Rocky Mountain states raising concerns about the Air Force’s decision to locate the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Alabama.
New Mexico Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, all Democrats, wrote Biden asking for a “comprehensive review” of the decision. Earlier in the week, Biden received a similar letter from Colorado’s congressional delegation.
Both Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs and Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque were on the final list of six cities under consideration for the headquarters. But the Trump administration in its final days in power picked Alabama.
Fox News correspondent Doug Luzader reports on the latest.
The New Mexico House Democrat that President Biden has picked to lead the Department of the Interior will be if confirmed the first Native American Cabinet secretary, but her views on the hot-button issue of fracking have been met with resistance from conservatives.
Rep. Deb Haaland was announced in December as Biden’s choice to fill the position that oversees U.S. natural resources and tribal lands. The 60-year-old was first elected to Congress in the 2018 midterms and now says she is honored and ready to serve as America’s Secretary of the Interior.