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Ryan Zinke is part of a long list of Trump cabinet members questioned for their lavish spending of taxpayer money

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Ryan Zinke is part of a long list of Trump cabinet members questioned for their lavish spending of taxpayer money

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in March 2017.

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 "Between regulations that require historic preservation and outdated government procurement rules, the costs for everything from pencils to printing to doors is astronomical."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:

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