ICYMI: Pruitt "dumbfounded" by Outrage Over His Travel Scandals

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Lauren Lantry, lauren.lantry@sierraclub.org 

Pruitt's contempt for the taxpayer and their money knows no bounds. Yesterday, on Mark Reardon’s radio show Scott Pruitt said he was “dumbfounded by the kind of media narratives that these things are somehow not the focus,” he went on to try and justify his $120,000 first class trip to Italy on the basis of having a jam-packed schedule. Pruitt was so busy, he only had time for one pasta making class and a private tour of the Vatican. It’s not just “very important meetings” (and pasta making class) that Pruitt is recklessly spending our taxpayer dollars on. Earlier this year Pruitt brought his security detail with him to Disneyland and to watch the University of Oklahoma Sooners lose in the Rose Bowl. We’re a bit dumbfounded as to how he still has his job.

 

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