Washington • After the Interior Department’s inspector general opened an inquiry into Secretary Ryan Zinke’s use of taxpayer-funded charter and military planes, Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, is asking the department for all documents related to such travel dating back to then-President Barack Obama’s first term.
The request by Bishop, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, asks Zinke for any travel by the Interior secretary since Jan. 20, 2009, that used “government-owned, rented, leased or chartered aircraft.”
Zinke is one of the latest Cabinet members to come under fire for flying on private planes at taxpayers’ expense.