Posted on 02/04/2019 12:59:07 PM PST by jazusamo
President Trump announced Monday afternoon he will nominate Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to serve as the next Secretary of the Interior.
I am pleased to announce that David Bernhardt, Acting Secretary of the Interior, will be nominated as Secretary of the Interior. David has done a fantastic job from the day he arrived, and we look forward to having his nomination officially confirmed!
Bernhardt took on the acting position last fall when then Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke stepped down and was under a number of ethics investigations. Bernhardt is an attorney who held positions at the Interior Department during the George W. Bush administration.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, facing federal investigations into his travel, political activity and potential conflicts of interest, will be leaving the administration at years end, President Donald Trump said Saturday. In his resignation letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Zinke said vicious and politically motivated attacks against him had created an unfortunate distraction in fulfilling the agencys mission.
Zinkes resignation letter, obtained from a Zinke aide on Saturday, cites what he calls meritless and false claims and says that to some, truth no longer matters.
Secretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years. Ryan has accomplished much during his tenure and I want to thank him for his service to our Nation.......
Yep, its very clear that the critics of Trump have never worked a second in the private sector.
This looks like another wonderful pick, Mr President !
Thanks my FRiend.
Being that President Trump and former Secretary Zinke speak highly of David Bernhardt while the enviros (especially the Center for Biological Diversity) hate him tells me he’ll be good in this position.
You do know that Bernhard was already deputy to Zinke, right?
Good! You pass the test, you get the job. Screw up, you’re fired.
#meritocracy
The Deep State had to rid themselves of Ryan Zinke. He was poised to give sovereignty back to the states, and to massively curtail the renegade FedGov’s activities on private land.
Oh, and he massively increased oil & gas leases on Federal land.
Yep, and it looks like Bernhardt will be a carbon copy of Zinke, hope so anyway.
Zinke was a great disappointment to many of us in the West, especially on the issue of National Monuments. I was glad to see him go and look forward to seeing if Bernhardt has more political fortitude than Zinke.
Yep... Thought about it but decided as soon as I eliminated the:
Don’t forget the US Fish & Wildlife Service.
Yup, you got it. And you notice how the Leftist media isn’t going all bat poop crazy with stories of âWhite House In Disarray! nonsense? They realize whats going on. You’re right. Trump is a project manger. You sign a contract with a person or an agreement and if the do their job and do it well, we’ll talk a re up on the contract. If it’s only for a certain period that’s the deal. If you don’t cut it and prove to be a bad hire, clean out your desk. Trump is a boss and a tough and demanding one. He’s fair but obviously he doesn’t suffer slackers and dead weight. And I think he’s learned he doesn’t need a bunch of phony swamp rats around second guessing him and leaking stuff to the media.
Whoops!
The oil and gas leases are a very big deal.
I would like to hear more bragging and boasting from the President’s cabinet members. Many of us in the public don’t really know what they do, or don’t keep up with their accomplishments. By the by, anybody see or hear anything from Rick Perry? Is he still with this Administration at all?
Rick loves to brag and boast, or he used to.
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