{"id":67819,"date":"2026-03-02T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/republican-ryan-zinke-to-step-down-as-us-congressman\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:57:27","slug":"republican-ryan-zinke-to-step-down-as-us-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/republican-ryan-zinke-to-step-down-as-us-congressman\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Ryan Zinke to step down as US congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zinke, interior secretary during Trump\u2019s first term, cites health problems and declines to run again in Montana<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Zinke, a Montana Republican who served as interior secretary during Donald Trump\u2019s first administration, said he would not seek re-election to a fifth term in the US House, citing health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The decision gives Democrats an outside chance to pick up a House seat in a state that has veered to the right politically over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/ryan-zinke-montana-us-house\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zinke, interior secretary during Trump\u2019s first term, cites health problems and declines to run again in Montana Ryan Zinke, a Montana Republican who served as interior secretary during Donald Trump\u2019s first administration, said he would not seek re-election to a fifth term in the US House, citing health concerns. The decision gives Democrats an outside &#8230; <a title=\"Republican Ryan Zinke to step down as US congressman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/republican-ryan-zinke-to-step-down-as-us-congressman\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican Ryan Zinke to step down as US congressman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}