Swordsmyth
12-15-2018, 03:51 PM
On Saturday morning, President Trump announced that Zinke will be leaving the Department of the Interior by the end of the month.
Neither the Department of the Interior nor the White House immediately responded to a request for comment. Trump said on Twitter (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1073945393313013760) that he would name a replacement in the coming days. Zinke was known to have been looking for work (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/08/ryan-zinke-fox-news-956537) in the private sector for the last several months, relegating more responsibility to deputy secretary David L. Bernhardt (https://www.doi.gov/whoweare/depsec), a veteran Washington lobbyist with ties to energy concerns and the Republican establishment.
More at: https://news.yahoo.com/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-came-undone-174019440.html
Neither the Department of the Interior nor the White House immediately responded to a request for comment. Trump said on Twitter (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1073945393313013760) that he would name a replacement in the coming days. Zinke was known to have been looking for work (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/08/ryan-zinke-fox-news-956537) in the private sector for the last several months, relegating more responsibility to deputy secretary David L. Bernhardt (https://www.doi.gov/whoweare/depsec), a veteran Washington lobbyist with ties to energy concerns and the Republican establishment.
More at: https://news.yahoo.com/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-came-undone-174019440.html