Today, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faces two House hearings -- without the White House’s assistance -- on his ethical and illegal actions. He can try his best to shift the blame, but these scandals all have one thing in common: Scott Pruitt. Below are just the highlights of the long list of Pruitt’s wrongdoings.
Today, in the White House Press Briefing, Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt still has a job and how his behavior is corresponds with Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” given his many ethical scandals
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club began airing a TV ad on Fox and Friends calling for Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. The ads will air on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. The ad focuses on Pruitt’s swamp-like behavior including lavish spending and the Republican backlash.
Today, Senator Jim Inhofe, a former staunch Scott Pruitt ally, was asked whether Pruitt should resign if the allegations of his abuse of taxpayer funds, illegal spending, and other misconduct are true. Inhofe responded saying it "depends on which ones we are talking about."
The walls of Scott Pruitt’s support keep tumbling down. Yesterday, Politico reported that even staunch Pruitt ally Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is supportive of holding hearings by the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee to look into the former Oklahoma attorney general's actions.
Bloomberg is reporting that the White House, has “discouraged lawmakers from vigorously defending” Pruitt.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To top off an already bad week filled with broken laws, even more federal investigations, and overwhelming Republican criticism, today it was revealed that Scott Pruitt attempted to waste even more taxpayer money on frivolous expenditures, including a key card swipe system on the doors to the waiting area outside his office; having an EPA staffer hand-deliver daily news clips to his home each evening; and a proposal to rent a second condo in his lobbyist’s building so that his security detail did not have to park on the street overnight.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Scott Pruitt’s EPA submitted a controversial proposal to the White House aimed at requiring all scientific studies the EPA uses for setting safeguards to be peer-reviewed and make their raw data publicly available.
CHICAGO - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt made a secret, unannounced visit to Whiting, Ind. just outside Chicago today to make an announcement about the EPA’s Superfund program. American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 704, the union representing some 900 EPA employees across the midwest, joined residents of East Chicago, advocacy groups like the Sierra Club and Union of Concerned Scientists, Moms Clean Air Force and more in Chicago today to speak out about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s secretive, exclusive travel to the region and his damaging policies as EPA administrator.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the EPA Inspector General announced another investigation into EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s questionable ethics. This, the tenth federal investigation into Pruitt, one focuses on his use of official security detail on personal trips to Disneyland, the Rose Bowl and college basketball games.
Led by Senator Tom Udall and Representative Kathy Castor, 161 senators and members of Congress have signed a resolution calling for EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation. The news comes as Scott Pruitt is facing yet another investigation into his law breaking and ethics violations.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney announced that he will be joining the lengthy list of those investigating Scott Pruitt’s illegal actions and abuse of taxpayer funds. This is the second White House investigation into Pruitt in the past ten days.