Biden Cabinet member has estimated net worth of $0
in 2019. “I just feel like there has to be more people like me in office who can say, ‘I know what it’s like to be on food stamps. I know what it’s like to find every free program to put my kid through so that she has opportunities.’”estimates Haaland’s personal net worth at zero dollars, based on a review of her financial disclosure and public records.
of banking and financial services use. Spokespeople for Haaland at the Interior Department declined to comment on her net worth.Before heading up the Interior Department, Bernhardt was a highly paid lobbyist with clients like Statoil and Sempra Energy from the fossil fuel industry. In 1994 Haaland got her bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico and also gave birth to her only child. Haaland also started and ran her own business, called Pueblo Salsa. She toldin 2014: “I had a commercial kitchen there and bought all my chile locally and would drive to northern New Mexico and buy red chile. It was a small business, but I sold in a lot of grocery stores, in mom-and-pop shops and chile shops.” Still, it wasn’t easy.
Haaland graduated from law school in 2006 and got involved with the Democratic Party. She served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2008 and later became chair of the New Mexico state Democratic Party. She also had leadership roles as a San Felipe Pueblo tribal administrator, and she joined the board for the Laguna Development Corp., which is a Pueblo of Laguna-owned business that manages casinos and retail operations.
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