How EPA’s Scott Pruitt Has Pushed the Spending Envelope
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Scott Pruitt’s willingness to part with taxpayer money as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has drawn rebukes from ethics watchdogs and lawmakers in both parties.
Reports of Pruitt’s liberal spending on travel, security and pay raises for staff “do raise concerns about whether the administrator is using his public office for personal gain in violation of ethics rules,” David Apol, the acting head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, wrote in an April 6 letter to the EPA.