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turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 12:02 AM Sep 2017

Here are some EPA programs that Scott Pruitts $900,000 taxpayer-funded expenses could pay for

Since assuming office in late February, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has spent upwards of $900,000 of taxpayer dollars on extraneous expenses, including round-the-clock personal security, private chartered and military flights, and a soundproof booth for his office.

Such spending offers a stark contrast to the rhetoric of the former Oklahoma attorney general, who is a staunch proponent of small government and fiscal conservatism. Moreover, since coming to the agency, Pruitt has publicly espoused a philosophy of deep austerity for the EPA, arguing that the agency should work to do more with less by partnering more efficiently with state agencies and private industry. He defended the Trump administration’s proposed 31 percent cut to the agency, telling members of Congress that he feels the EPA can “fulfill the mission of our agency with a trim budget.” And he’s championed cutting programs he deems a waste of taxpayer dollars, like spending less than $15,000 for 37 employees to use a private gym for a year — at an average cost of $34/month per person. Pruitt ended that program in April of this year, saying that “it was quite something to hear about that.”

But it’s not just gym memberships that are on the chopping block in Pruitt’s EPA: The Trump administration’s proposed budget call for deep cuts to programs in everything from environmental enforcement to environmental justice, programs funded by grants and research that often carry a much lower price-tag that Pruitt’s private flights and security.

https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-spending-epa-programs-cuts-e3de948c552b/

Your just about as corrupt as the asshole that just resigned from HHS

And just think, you were under investigation for the about the same shit of political corruption in OK, while using industry talking points from big oil and such, that you and if taken in complete context, was confirmed by a bunch of right wing hacks in the republican controlled senate, who thought basically to just pencil whip you into a cabinet spot just because your a fucking republican.................FUCK YOU and THEM

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Here are some EPA programs that Scott Pruitts $900,000 taxpayer-funded expenses could pay for (Original Post) turbinetree Sep 2017 OP
Worse than that sharedvalues Sep 2017 #1
I was hoping that it was Pruitt who was taking the planes since I HATE HIM! BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #2
Maybe a sinkhole? murielm99 Sep 2017 #3

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
1. Worse than that
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 12:16 AM
Sep 2017

The right wing hacks in the Senate and the nominators put him in office BECAUSE!! he is politically corrupt and beholden to big oil and energy companies.

Corruption, grift, and selling yourself to corporations is a feature, not a bug, for Republicans.

How else could the GOP find nominees that are willing to do stupid things that hurt average Americans? Of course the nominee has to be sold out to the ultra-wealthy.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
2. I was hoping that it was Pruitt who was taking the planes since I HATE HIM!
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 12:16 AM
Sep 2017

I wish a new earthquake would occur but only under his home and it would get sucked into the fault...problem solved.

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