Shitstain Asked Scott Pruitt: "Should We Shut Down The Agency" (EPA); Pruitt Then Whines Some
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He remembered meeting with Trump as the incoming administration was being put together, including who would lead EPA, a position Pruitt was later nominated for. "As I've looked at the mission of the agency, I recall very distinctly when I went to Trump Tower," Pruitt said. "When I met with the president-elect at the time, he asked me a question. He said, 'Scott, should we shut down the agency?'" Pruitt said closing the agency has been discussed at times, primarily because EPA was created by executive order. On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump talked about reducing the agency, leaving "a little bit."
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In his remarks at the unveiling, Pruitt responded to attacks on him and EPA during his time there. "I pray that during my time as administrator, that though there was much vitriol, though there was much combativeness, though there was much misinformation in the marketplace and attacks on me personally and this agency that we did not reciprocate, that we did not respond in kind, that we exercised professionalism and civility as we did our work," Pruitt said. "I believe that we did that. And that is what I am most proud of is that we kept our focus. We kept our mission of getting results, despite all of that was going on around us."
Critics disagree that EPA under the Trump administration was civil. Hundreds of career employees left EPA, many of them feeling they and the agency were under attack. Members of EPA's Science Advisory Board were forced to leave because they accepted agency grants. Pruitt repeatedly criticized the prior administration's environmental record, saying President Obama was no "environmental savior."
EPA also issued press releases targeting news organizations and journalists by name. A reporter was shoved out of agency headquarters by a security guard, and another reporter was called "a piece of trash" by an EPA spokesman.
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