30+ security agents accompanied Pruitt on vacation to Disneyland and Rose Bowl; $3,000,000 in costs

[kpete]

30+ security agents accompanied Pruitt on vacation to Disneyland and Rose Bowl; $3,000,000 in costs and counting


EPA’s press office has refused to disclose the cost of Pruitt’s security or the size of his protective detail, saying doing so could imperil his personal safety.

But other sources within EPA and documents released through public information requests help provide a window into the ballooning costs.

In his first three months in office, before pricey overseas trips to Italy and Morocco, the price tag for Pruitt’s security detail hit more than $832,000, according to EPA documents released through a public information request.

Nearly three dozen EPA security and law enforcement agents were assigned to Pruitt, according to a summary of six weeks of weekly schedules obtained by Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.

Those schedules show multiple EPA security agents accompanied Pruitt on a family vacation to California that featured a day at Disneyland and a New Year’s Day football game where his home state Oklahoma Sooners were playing in the Rose Bowl. Multiple agents also accompanied Pruitt to a baseball game at the University of Kentucky and at his house outside Tulsa, during which no official EPA events were scheduled.

On weekend trips home for Sooners football games, when taxpayers weren’t paying for his ticket, the EPA official said Pruitt flew coach. He sometimes used a companion pass obtained with frequent flyer miles accumulated by Ken Wagner, a former law partner whom Pruitt hired as a senior adviser at EPA at a salary of more than $172,000. Taxpayers still covered the airfare for the administrator’s security detail


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[dalton99a]

1. One never knows the dangers lurking in Snow White's Scary Adventures

[HipChick]

2. 3M of taypayers money?

He gots to go...

[MaryMagdaline]

3. Oh my God that's a lot of money and waste of manpower

[MattP]

4. So he's getting bonus miles off of first class tickets we pay for?

[snowybirdie]

5. I wonder how his lovely wife

likes reading about how he traveled with the lovely Stephanie to Morroco and beyond? Plus the no-show job he somehow obtained for her? Trouble at home for him as well

[sarah FAILIN]

6. Does he think he is a POTUS?

That level of security is crazy. Jmo

[brush]

7. And no one but us political junkies even know who the fu_k he is. He could walk thru an airport...

he'd just be another middle-aged nobody except for his humongous security detail he apparently needs to buff up his ego.

[chowder66]

8. This guy needs to be drug tested or made to see a shrink. His level of paranoia is nuts. nt

[magicarpet]

9. Pruitt thinks he is royalty....

He ordered a bullet proof black government issued SUV - with shot at but continue on - but run flat feature tire - to get around town in Washington DC. When he goes out to dinner he wants a three motorcycle escort with sirens blaring and blue/red lights flashing as he speeds through rush hour traffic to keep his dinner appointments on time.

He has this Yuge Yuge ego and thinks he is really something special.

[Demovictory9]

10. what!? he has no shame