Ryan Zinke to step down as Interior Secretary

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke plans to depart the administration by the end of the year, President Trump announced on Saturday after Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs reported.

The backdrop: Zinke has been the target of an Interior Department's inspector general investigation over concerns about his travel and "potential conflicts of interest," which Jacobs says were factors in his decision to step down as Secretary. Axios' Amy Harder reports that the Department will see "less ethical controversy and smoother processes but little, if any, substantive policy shifts" with Zinke gone.

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