The Trump administration’s choice for chief Interior Department lawyer once helped lead an agency the president tried to kill.
As vice president and general counsel for the Overseas Private Investment Corp., William Doffermyre represented the independent government entity that the first Trump administration sought to eventually eliminate through an “orderly wind-down.”
“The Administration seeks to redefine the proper role of the Federal Government by streamlining government programs and reducing unnecessary Federal interventions that distort the free market,” Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget justification stated.
OPIC wasn’t killed, but instead evolved into what is now called the U.S. International Development Finance Corp., while Doffermyre in 2019 joined the Dallas-based Energy Transfer.
