Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will make her first appearance on Capitol Hill this year to defend the president’s fiscal 2025 budget plan.
Haaland is one of the most sought-after Cabinet leaders during the budget hearing process, with lawmakers eager to question her on a variety of administration initiatives on energy and the environment.
The White House proposed to increase the Interior Department’s spending after Congress cut a variety of its bureaus during the protracted and acrimonious fiscal 2024 spending process.
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But Republican lawmakers will most likely scold Haaland on the administration’s treatment of fossil fuels. Just Friday the Bureau of Land Management finalized rulemaking with new royalty rates.
