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A top official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development who had been announced as a candidate for the Interior Department's top watchdog position has resigned from the Trump administration, HUD said Friday.

HUD Assistant Secretary Suzanne Tufts "has offered her resignation and it has been accepted," HUD spokesman Raffi Williams wrote in an email.

The announcement closed a week of finger pointing by the White House, Interior and HUD on the choice of Tufts, a GOP operative with no experiencing investigating allegations of unethical behavior. The Interior Department's office of inspector general has opened several investigations into Zinke's actions, and a report obtained by POLITICO on Thursday faulted him for seeking to skirt or alter department policies to justify his taxpayer-funded trips with his wife.

Earlier Friday, the White House denied that it had suggested Tufts as a candidate to lead the Interior watchdog.

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