Senate Energy Committee questions nominee David Eisner on international energy priorities and ties to prior Treasury service

David Eisner, President Trump’s nominee to be assistant secretary of energy for international affairs, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on July 15 that he embraces the administration’s “energy dominance agenda” and plans to advocate for U.S. energy and critical minerals abroad if confirmed.

The committee convened to consider four nominees for energy-related offices. Eisner — who previously served as counselor to the secretary of the Treasury and as assistant secretary for management at the Treasury during the first Trump administration — described his time at Treasury as formative and said the experience taught him “the work that we were doing was not red and it wasn’t blue, it was red white and blue.” He told senators he…