It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.

The department announced that it would deploy more than 10,000 of its ranks and put stringent security measures in place for the celebration of the Knicks’ N.B.A. championship on Thursday.

Democrats and some Republicans excoriated President Trump’s pick for a top national security job. The president pushed ahead anyway.