Senate confirms Steve Pearce, Trump’s nominee to lead Bureau of Land Management ^38.4%

KUER - By Associated Press, KUER News - 5/19/2026, 10:37 AM

Negativity Bias 48.6% - Framing Effect 24.3% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 23.9%

Former Republican congressman Steve Pearce of New Mexico was confirmed on a 46-43 vote Monday to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management. Utah Sens. Mike Lee was a yea vote, and John Curtis did not vote. The agency manages a quarter-billion acres of public lands that are often at the center of disputes over conservation... more