Interior Department investigating Zinke for reportedly threatening senators over Trumpcare votes

The Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has launched a “preliminary investigation” over reports that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke threatened to pull funding from Alaskan energy projects if Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) didn’t vote in support of President Donald Trump’s health care proposal.

“The OIG is undertaking a preliminary investigation into this matter,” Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall sai...