Interior Secretary Doug Burgum assured his staff in a speech earlier this week that the administration’s efforts to streamline the department will make their jobs better.
“I believe that the work you are doing, you chose to do it because you believed it had purpose,” Burgum said, striking an uplifting tone after arriving at the Interior Department on Monday, according to a partial video of the speech shared on the social media site X.
He said: “I also know that there’s a chunk of your job that you are doing today that is probably mind-numbingly, soul-suckingly boring.”
He continued: “Our job is to find those pieces of your job and make them go away. We’re cutting red tape not just for Americans, but we want to cut it for all of you, so you can work on the stuff, the reason why you chose the field that you did.”
