15-05-2025
Army Corps pick promises to follow Trump order on Alaska
President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Army Corps of Engineers committed to uphold a presidential executive order that the agency 'rescind, revoke, revise, amend, defer, or grant exemptions' to any Biden administration policy that runs counter to the president's priorities in Alaska.
In a confirmation hearing exchange with Sen. Dan Sullivan (R), Adam Telle told the Alaska senator he 'tattooed the executive order that the president issued to Alaska on my heart.'
Telle's statement came during an otherwise staid hearing Wednesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee where he answered questions from Republicans and Democrats about the agency's primary obligations: maintaining navigation on U.S. waterways, girding nation's coastlines and rivers from extreme flooding, and protecting and preserving natural resources.
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Sullivan said Telle must be a 'glutton for punishment' to accept the role leading a multibillion-dollar program that is often mired in controversy. But no members signaled they would vigorously oppose Telle's confirmation vote in the full Senate.
