Ryan Zinke is part of a long list of Trump cabinet members questioned for their lavish spending of taxpayer money by Brennan Weiss on Mar 9, 2018, 6:40 PM Advertisement
 Scrutiny over how some members of President Donald Trump's cabinet have spent taxpayer money isn't dying down. The latest official to come under the microscope is Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose office spent nearly $139,000 to renovate three sets of office doors allegedly in need of repair, the Associated Press reported Thursday. A spokesperson for Zinke later explained the situation and said the secretary was not a part of the decision to authorize the payment. "The secretary was not aware of this contract but agrees that this is a lot of money for demo, install, materials, and labor," Heather Swift said in a statement. "Between regulations that require historic preservation and outdated government procurement rules, the costs for everything from pencils to printing to doors is astronomical." An official at the Interior Department told CNN on Thursday that the doors being renovated were so damaged that they weren't able to prevent rainwater from coming in during a storm. But Swift said Zinke still thinks that the government's procurement processes need to be reformed. Here are other Trump cabinet members who have been criticized for wasteful spending: SEE ALSO: Interior secretary Ryan Zinke's office spent $139,000 for construction on an office door DON'T MISS: EPA chief Scott Pruitt says he has to fly first class because a 'toxic' political environment puts him in danger Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior  Before Thursday's news about the office doors surfaced, Zinke was involved in another spending controversy. The Associated Press reported in December that Zinke spent more than $53,000 on three helicopters trips. Those trips entailed: - $39,000 on a helicopter tour above national monuments in Nevada
- $8,000 on a round trip ride to an emergency management exercise in West Virginia
- $6,200 on a trip to Virginia to visit a Revolutionary War battlefield and attend a meeting
Zinke called the reports "total fabrications and a wild departure from reality." Two months earlier, the Interior Department's watchdog agency launched a separate investigation into Zinke's travels when it was reported Zinke used a private plane owned by an oil executive. One of the flights he took, from Nevada to Montana, cost taxpayers $12,000.
Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury  Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin came under fire in August 2017 when he took a $26,900 flight to Kentucky on an Air Force jet, a trip that coincided with the August 21 solar eclipse. Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, viewed the eclipse from the lawn of Fort Knox, just outside the eclipse's path of totality. The Treasury secretary's activities also raised questions when it was reported that Mnuchin requested to fly on a US military jet for his honeymoon to Europe. The trip could have cost $25,000 per hour, but it was ultimately scrapped after consideration by officials at the Treasury Department.
Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development  Earlier this month, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson came under fire when his staff reportedly said they were attempting to cancel an order for a $31,000 mahogany dining set to replace the 50-year-old table currently in Carson's office. Carson's business manager said the secretary intended to cancel the order, but that it might not be possible. "HUD is a bureaucracy, so everything is complicated. The person they contracted has already spent $14,000 making the table," Armstrong Williams told The New York Times. "While his intentions are to cancel it, we have to see what happens."
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