Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Tuesday criticized President Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of individuals who were convicted of assaulting police officers during the Jan.
The decision to again lift limits on roadless-area development sets up a rematch over the Tongass National Forest.
Dunleavy offered no opinion on Trump's decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley, saying he wanted to speak with the president before sharing his own view.
President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday, and made the announcement in his inaugural address, also promising to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
Senator Lisa Murkowski engaged with Energy Secretary nominee Chris Wright, commending his deep expertise in energy and focus on affordability and innovation. Highlighting Alaska's unique energy challenges and potential,
President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,000 people this week who were charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, some of those very same people Alaska Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski ran from.
President Donald Trump said the Gulf of Mexico will be called the Gulf of America, while the Denali mountain peak will revert to its former name, Mount McKinley.
The President's order to rename Denali, North America's highest peak, back to Mount McKinley does not agree with Alaska senator.
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.
Trump on Monday also signed an executive order to overturn a limit on oil and natural gas leasing in the Bering Sea, which Biden signed on Jan. 6 as part of a broader drilling moratorium. Because the former president used the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for the ban, it would likely require an act of Congress to change.