Thread by @jnoisecat

In just a few minutes @RepDebHaaland will join President-elect @JoeBiden and many of the next Administration's climate policy leaders.

Tune in to celebrate #DebForInterior:
buildbackbetter.gov/live/

.@JoeBiden touts the diversity of his Cabinet, which includes "the first Native American Cabinet Secretary."

"Welcome, welcome, welcome."

"For Secretary of Interior I nominate Deb Haaland. She's from the pueblo people. Only 35 generations in New Mexico," says @JoeBiden.

"She learned and she earned the respect of a broad coalition of environmental groups, labor groups and tribal people."

"She will be a true steward of our natural parks and our natural lands," says the President-elect.

"Congresswoman Haaland will strengthen our nation-to-nation relationship with tribal people."

"Again, thank you for doing this," he concludes.

.@ali_a_zaidi, Biden's deputy dlimate czar and a real friend of the climate movement, gets a friendly jab for being from Erie, which Biden contrasts with Scranton—"the better part of the state."

Deb speaking now!

"I am proud to stand here on the lands of the Lenape tribal nation," she begins, tearing up.

"This moment is profound when we consider that a former Secretary of Interior saw his job as to 'civilize or exterminate us.'"

"I am a living testament to the failure of that horrific ideology."

Speaking of her experiences with homelessness and poverty as well as the lives of her ancestors, including grandparents sent to Native American boarding schools, Haaland describes herself as "a product of their resilience."

"I will be fierce for all of us. For our planet and for all of our protected land and I'm honored and ready to serve."

"Thank you again."

Goosebumps. I've cried tears of joy a few times since the news of her appointment broke Thursday. She nailed that.