Scott Pruitt spent $12,000 in taxpayer money to travel back to OK: Obama EPA paid for her own trips.
As noted below, Obama's administrator paid for her home trips.
Jul 24
Scott Pruitt spent $12,000 in taxpayer money to travel back to Oklahoma
Pruitt spent 43 days in a three-month period traveling back home to Oklahoma.
https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-oklahoma-schedule-7ce527494331
CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File
Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt spent nearly half of his first few months as administrator using taxpayer funds to travel to and from his home state of Oklahoma, according to EPA documents obtained by a nonprofit group.
The Environmental Integrity Project, a group that consists of former EPA employees, published a report on Monday based on Pruitt’s calendar and travel vouchers from March through May. The vouchers and schedule reveal that Pruitt spent 43 days in a 92-day stretch either in Oklahoma, or traveling to and from the state. All of those trips used taxpayer funds to cover at least one leg of travel.
Pruitt has been notoriously opaque about his daily activities since becoming EPA administrator in February, refusing to publicly release his schedule in a sharp break with past administrations.
Gina McCarthy, who served as EPA administrator from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, also took frequent trips home to Massachusetts while at the EPA, but paid for those trips herself, according to the New York Times.
Pruitt, by contrast, has spent roughly $12,000 in taxpayer dollars on travel to and from Oklahoma.........................
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