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- According to media reports, US President-elect Joe Biden wants to appoint Deb Haaland as Home Secretary.
- It would be the first time in American history for a Native American woman to serve as a cabinet minister.
- The congresswoman from the state of New Mexico belongs to the Pueblo of Laguna tribe.
As reported unanimously by the “Washington Post”, the “New York Times” and CNN on Thursday (local time), Deb Haaland, 60, will be appointed Secretary of the Interior by the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.
If Haaland is approved by the Senate, the United States would have an American Indian minister for the first time.
The Washington Post wrote about Biden’s landmark decision, “which marked a turning point in the US government’s relationship with the nation’s indigenous peoples.”
Biden’s heads of government
Haaland was one of the first two women to be elected to the House of Representatives as an indigenous people in 2018. There, she sits on the Committee on Natural Resources, which oversees the Ministry of the Interior. In the US, the agency has different tasks than the European interior ministries and is responsible, for example, for indigenous nations and national parks, and therefore for more than a fifth of the area of the country. The Reuters news agency reported Tuesday that Haaland was under discussion. He has announced that he wants to promote the generation of renewable energy to combat climate change.
