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Deb Haaland is expected to be confirmed.

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Outgoing New Mexico Democratic lawmaker Deb Haaland is going to be confirmed for Secretary of the Department of Interior. She will be the first Native American and woman to hold the post. 

President Joe Biden announced her to lead in December. Progressives have urged him to give her an opportunity to lead the Interior Department. 

The previous secretaries under former president Donald J. Trump were terrible. They wanted to open up land to oil drilling, natural gas pumping, fracking and that goddamn TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline. The pipelines that Trump authorized were to go through reservations which go against the treaties Congress passed decades ago to preserve the sovereignty of tribal lands. The Interior Department allowed the invasive murder hornets spread into the United States and Canada. Now North American honeybees are at risk of extinction because of this dangerous hornet.

Haaland has a huge mess to clean up.

Haaland is of Pueblo descendants and a resident of the city of Albuquerque.

Haaland was born in Winslow, Arizona. She is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo.The Pueblo people have lived on the land that is now the state of New Mexico since the 1200s and Haaland identifies herself as a 35th-generation New Mexican. Her mother, Mary Toya, a Native American woman, served in the United States Navy.

Her father, Major J. D. "Dutch" Haaland, a Norwegian American, was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and recipient of the Silver Star for his actions in Vietnam; he was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in 2005. As a child in a military family, Haaland moved frequently. 

She attended 13 public schools across the United States before the family settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be close to family who also belong to the Laguna Pueblo. Haaland graduated from Highland High School in Albuquerque. 

She has three sisters and a brother.

Deb Haaland was an early backer of Biden. She and Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS) are the first Native American women to serve in the U.S. Congress.

 

After graduating from Highland High School, Haaland worked at a local bakery. In 1988, she enrolled at the University of New Mexico, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1994. Four days after graduating, she gave birth to her daughter, Somáh. 

As a single mother, Haaland started a salsa company to support herself and her daughter. At times during this period, she did not earn enough money to afford housing and had to rely on friends for shelter. She also relied on food stamps at times. She earned her Juris Doctor in Indian law from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2006, but is not a member of the New Mexico State Bar.

Haaland became the first chairwoman elected to the Laguna Development Corporation Board of Directors, a Laguna-owned business created to strengthen the Laguna Community and its economy. As chairwoman, she oversaw business operations for the second largest tribal gaming enterprise in New Mexico and successfully advocated for the corporation to create policies and commitments to earth-friendly business practices.

She served as the tribal administrator for the San Felipe Pueblo from January 2013 to November 2015.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) got their heads out their asses and are on board with confirming Haaland to the Interior Department. Her vote confirmation is expected to be this week. It will be partisan because the party of what Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called it is opposed to it.

Republican senators are not willing to support her. 

According to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Haaland is a radical who wants to stop oil drilling, the border wall and wants to force climate change down the throats of Americans.

Before Biden nominated Haaland, many senior Democrats had voiced their support for her as Secretary of the Interior, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Senator Elizabeth Warren. In addition, Republican congressmen Don Young and Tom Cole had also expressed their support of Haaland's nomination.

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is a federal executive department of the U.S. government. It is responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States, as well as programs related to historic preservation. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the department, with most of the remainder managed by the United States Department of Agriculture's United States Forest Service.

The department was created on March 3, 1849.

Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS), Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), Rep. Yvette Harrell (R-NM) and Haaland are the only Native American lawmakers in the 117th Congress.

Native Americans support of Biden which helped him win Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Minnesota, Colorado and Wisconsin. Trump did carry significant support among people of color. 

Trump won 15% of the Black vote, 35% of the Hispanic vote, 42% of the Asian vote and 32% of the Native American vote.