Interior Department staffers are describing a Secretary Doug Burgum operation so allergic to accountability that it's routinely destroying its own paper trail. Three current or former officials told Politico that Interior employees have been shredding documents and relying on disappearing Signal messages — both practices that run afoul of the Federal Records Act. "They're terrified of written records," one former official said. Separately, Interior official Karen Budd-Falen is facing her own scrutiny. The dysfunction Politico notes is actually throughout the Trump administration, starting with the President.