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Doug Burgum: “Department of Interior, 500 million acres of land, 700…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Theodore Roosevelt, who put away much of this federal land because it's an enormous interior by itself, would be the largest balance sheet of any company in the world. If Department of Interior, 500 million acres of land, 700 million acres of subsurface, 2.5 billion of undersea offshore rich with critical minerals and oil and gas resources. So that's the balance sheet and we should be developing it responsibly because if interior is the largest balance sheet in the world, which it is, and then you take … (05:59–06:13)

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Asserts the Department of Interior manages vast land and resource assets.

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