{"id":539741,"date":"2026-05-20T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=539741"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:57:50","slug":"testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony: William &#8220;Billy&#8221; Kirkland of Department of the Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Testimony: William &#8220;Billy&#8221; Kirkland of Department of the Interior<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, May 20, 2026<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u2022 PDF: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/5-20-26-testimony-billy-kirkland\/>Testimony of William &#8220;Billy&#8221; Kirkland<\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe following is the written testimony of William &#8220;Billy&#8221; Kirkland, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of the Interior<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nKirkland appears before the <a href=https:\/\/indian.senate.gov\/>Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> at an Oversight Hearing to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearings\/oversight-hearing-to-examine-the-presidents-budget-requests-for-fiscal-year-2027-for-the-bureau-of-indian-affairs-and-the-indian-health-service\/\">Examine the President\u2019s Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2027 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service<\/a>.\u201d He provides testimony about the <a href=https:\/\/www.bia.gov\/>Bureau of Indian Affairs<\/a>.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/billy-kirkland-testimony-052026-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-539746\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"539746\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/billy-kirkland-testimony-052026-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: William H. Kirkland III\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony: William H. Kirkland III&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of William H. Kirkland, III., Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Oversight Hearing to \u201cExamine the President\u2019s Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2027 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service.\u201d May 20, 2026&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-1.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: William H. Kirkland III\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-539746\" \/><\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/billy-kirkland-testimony-052026-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-539745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"539745\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/billy-kirkland-testimony-052026-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: William H. Kirkland III\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony: William H. Kirkland III&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of William H. Kirkland, III., Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Oversight Hearing to \u201cExamine the President\u2019s Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2027 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service.\u201d May 20, 2026&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-2.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: William H. Kirkland III\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-539745\" \/><\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/billy-kirkland-testimony-052026-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-539744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"539744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/billy-kirkland-testimony-052026-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: William H. Kirkland III\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony: William H. Kirkland III&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of William H. Kirkland, III., Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Oversight Hearing to \u201cExamine the President\u2019s Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2027 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service.\u201d May 20, 2026&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-3.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: William H. Kirkland III\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-539744\" \/><\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/billy-kirkland-testimony-052026-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-539747\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"539747\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/20\/testimony-william-billy-kirkland-of-department-of-the-interior\/billy-kirkland-testimony-052026-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: William H. Kirkland III\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony: William H. Kirkland III&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Testimony of William H. Kirkland, III., Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Oversight Hearing to \u201cExamine the President\u2019s Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2027 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service.\u201d May 20, 2026&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-4.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: William H. Kirkland III\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-539747\" \/><\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearings\/oversight-hearing-to-examine-the-presidents-budget-requests-for-fiscal-year-2027-for-the-bureau-of-indian-affairs-and-the-indian-health-service\/>Business Meeting to consider several bills &#038; Oversight Hearing to \u201cExamine the President\u2019s Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2027 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service\u201d<\/a> (May 20, 2026)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William &#8220;Billy&#8221; Kirkland of the Department of the Interior testifies before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on May 20, 2026.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":539746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,20,1,14],"tags":[5366,117,5905,118,6909,213,91],"class_list":["post-539741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","tag-119th","tag-bia","tag-billy-kirkland","tag-doi","tag-fy2027","tag-scia","tag-senate","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20\/Billy-Kirkland-Testimony-052026-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-2gpv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539741"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539793,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539741\/revisions\/539793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}