President Donald Trump could see up to six Cabinet officials depart in the weeks after next month’s midterm elections, according to interviews with a half-dozen current and former Trump officials and Republicans close to the White House.
For a president who has already shed or shuffled eight Cabinet officials, that would make for the highest turnover rate in recent history.
It would also be a major disruption even by the standards of an ever-churning administration — possibly creating new confusion across departments and agencies and risking multiple bloody Senate confirmation fights.
The list includes Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who announced last month that she will depart by the end of the year, with no replacement in line. Trump is widely expected to oust Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom he has criticized for months. Others who appear most likely to depart, according to administration sources and White House advisers, include Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a close ally of chief of staff John Kelly...
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Here is what the article says about Zinke:
Zinke is expected to change agencies or leave the administration
altogether, thanks to his grander political ambitions — or the numerous
ethical investigations that have dogged his tenure at Interior.
It is notable that Zinke is one of the few who may leave on his own accord.
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