Obama Interior officials dwarfed Ryan Zinke’s spending on private flights: Report

Published October 10, 2017 12:23am ET



Interior secretaries under the Obama administration spent close to $1 million on chartered aircraft over the last eight years, while Trump’s Ryan Zinke spent just south of $73,000 on six trips since he was sworn in back in March, according to CNN.

The Interior Department submitted the records to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee detailing flights on chartered government and private planes by former Interior secretaries Ken Salazar and Sally Jewell.

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