Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is stepping down, President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday morning.
Trump wrote that Zinke would be leaving the administration at the end of the year after a two-year stint in the White House and that he would be naming a replacement next week.
The embattled secretary's departure comes amid the pressure of numerous ethics probes into a series of questionable expenditures, including reportedly spending thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds for a government helicopter ride to arrive on time for a horseback ride with Vice President Mike Pence. Another revolved around a lucrative real-estate deal in his Montana hometown that involved oil giant Halliburton, a company the Interior Department regulates...
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Another good guy with a pen being swamped by the bad guys with no conscience. We will miss Zinke because he had lots of regulations to erase. But then just sit there waiting for the axe to fall, then complain that no one ever listens to you. Did it really matter how Zinke traveled around the country or how much that cost? M. Obama traveled to Spain with 100+ friends on a vacation and no one ever said a word. Why? I guess you didn't care about that either. A demoncrat can do anything and resist the weak counter by RINOS and continue to screw the country. Zinke does what the President asked him to do and the demoncrats kick him often enough to get him out of office. Maybe Zinke needed some of the "who gives a S###" attitude the demoncrats have.
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