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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Hawkinson

Interior Department staff’s unusual demands — like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies — have ‘alarmed’ officials

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and his staff have reportedly used his position leading the agency to make a series of bizarre demands from his staff — including that they bake fresh chocolate-chip cookies, according to a report.

Burgum and his senior staff have asked his aides to use the agency’s industrial ovens to cook him chocolate chip cookies, instructed political appointees to work as servers for a multi-course meal and ordered a U.S. Park Police helicopter for personal transport, according to The Atlantic.

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