Trump Administration Backtracks on Appointee

Interior Department officials said that they did not approve the hiring of a political appointee as the agency’s acting watchdog, calling the announcement of her move by HUD Secretary Ben Carson “100 percent false information,” the Washington Post reports.

“The backtracking on Suzanne Israel Tufts’s hiring from HUD two days after it drew widespread scrutiny deepened questions about how and why she was supposedly chosen to lead the inspector general’s office, which is currently conducting at least four investigations into Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.”