Debra Anne Haaland, the 54th Secretary of the Interior of the United States, was born in the United States on December 2, 1960.
She was a Democrat who served as the New Mexico Democratic Party’s head from 2015 to 2017 and as the state’s first congressional district’s representative from 2019 to 2021. Haaland belongs to the Laguna Pueblo tribe and is a member of it.
The majority of Albuquerque and the majority of its suburbs fell inside Haaland’s congressional district.
She is one of the first two Native American women elected to the U.S. Congress, along with Sharice Davids. She is a political leftist who backs Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.
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President-elect Joe Biden declared on December 17, 2020, that he will propose Haaland for the position of Secretary of the Interior. On March 15, 2021, the US Senate approved her by a vote of 51 to 40.
The Kaw Nation native and former Republican vice president Charles Curtis was the first Native American to hold the position of Cabinet secretary after she was sworn in on March 16.