Pruitt spent $3.5 million on security during first year as EPA head

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Scott Pruitt spent nearly $3.5 million on security during his first year as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to an agency breakdown released Friday.

Pruitt's round the clock security detail racked up the high costs through both travel and payroll expenses — costing taxpayers more than $760,000 in travel and more than $2.7 million in pay during the administrator's first year.

The costs for his detail, which have accompanied Pruitt on both international trips like Morocco and Italy and to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl, are significantly higher than the amounts previous administrators spent, the data shows.

In comparison, EPA spent just $1.6 million on security for former EPA head Gina McCarthy during her last year in the post.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/389385-pruitt-spent-35-million-on-security-during-first-year-as-epa-head

[BigmanPigman]

1. Why isn't he fired yet?

[USALiberal]

2. Again......imagine if Obama's EPA chief did this!!!! nt

[politicaljunkie41910]

3. Hell if he didn't have all that security detail around him, no one would know who the hell he was in

the first place and then he wouldn't need any security detail, at all. He looks like any ordinary, white man from Oklahoma.
Question: When was the last time someone asked the EPA Director for his autograph at Disneyland?
Answer: Never; and it wasn't because of his large security detail, either. It's because no one gives a damn about the EPA Director. No one goes to Disneyland hoping they might run into the EPA Director. Nor do they get on an airplane hoping they run into the EPA Director. This guy is too full of himself. From what I understand, the only people who gave him a hard time on an airplane, (which he claimed is why he flew First Class), was because they recognized him as the asshole who was spending all their taxpayer money on his large security detail, and they let him know it.

Pruitt reminds me of this joke from when I was a child. It went: People wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought about them if they knew how little they really cared. Scott Pruitt, we don't care about where you go as long as we taxpayers aren't paying for it in one way or another.

[Achilleaze]

4. That tax money could have funded another golf outing for Dirty Donny*

But instead of republicans squandering our hard-earned tax millions on yet another freaking frivolous golden, gourmet, luxury golf goof-off for Dirty Donny* the republicans squandered it on needless protection for another republican peckerhead. Go figure. I want my tax money back. Now.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief