Biden Will Name a Senior Interior Official as Acting No. 2

President Biden will name a senior Interior department official as the department’s No. 2 official on an acting basis, a person familiar with the Biden administration’s plans told The Hill.

The administration is expected to name Laura Daniel-Davis, Biden’s nominee for assistant secretary for land and minerals management, as acting deputy Interior secretary. She will replace Tommy Beaudreau, who is set to leave his post at the end of October.

Daniel-Davis, a veteran of the Biden and Obama administrations, was nominated in June 2021, but the Senate Energy Committee deadlocked on her nomination that year and the next, sending it back to the president for renomination. Biden renominated her in 2023, but in March, committee Chair Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he would not advance the nomination.

Read the source article at The Hill