White House to Investigate Pruitt’s $43,000 Secure Phone Booth

  • Budget office probing whether EPA broke spending law
  • Agency should have told Congress first, GAO previously found

White House To Investigate Pruitt's Spending

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The White House budget office is investigating the EPA’s spending of $43,000 on a secure phone booth for Administrator Scott Pruitt’s office.

"I’m not any happier about it than you are," Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told House lawmakers at hearing Wednesday.