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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 09:02 AM Oct 2017

First on CNN: Security costs skyrocket at 'lightning rod' EPA

Source: CNN

The Environmental Protection Agency is beefing up security measures surrounding Administrator Scott Pruitt to an unprecedented level, CNN has learned, as members of Congress are asking if the costs are a "potential waste or abuse of taxpayer dollars."

Pruitt's security detail is in the process of expanding by hiring a dozen more agents, according to a source with knowledge of the situation, as the number of threats against the agency leader increase. The incoming agents will grow the team that works in shifts to provide him around-the-clock protection, something unheard of for Pruitt's predecessors.

Salaries alone for the full team will cost at least $2 million per year, according to figures compiled by CNN from public documents. The numbers do not include costs such as training, equipment, and travel.

The spending increase comes as the Trump administration has laid out plans to cut the agency's budget by 30%, including major cuts to the agency's enforcement work and staffing as well as the elimination of some programs. Pruitt told Congress in June that the EPA "can fulfill the mission of our agency with a trimmed budget, with proper leadership and management."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/23/politics/epa-pruitt-security-costs/index.html



I think this will make it over two dozen bodyguards for this POS.
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First on CNN: Security costs skyrocket at 'lightning rod' EPA (Original Post) Zorro Oct 2017 OP
It really doesn't matter atreides1 Oct 2017 #1
Hey, praetors gotta have a praetorian guard. tanyev Oct 2017 #2
Waste of government resources. Perfect for Pruitts EPA Freethinker65 Oct 2017 #3
OMG this Pruitt has million a day in secret service protection & private Jets for OFFICE management Sunlei Oct 2017 #4
I'm suffering from outrage fatigue. trusty elf Oct 2017 #5
Damn Turd and his henchmen. lagomorph777 Oct 2017 #6
So it's now the Pruitt Protection Agency? ck4829 Oct 2017 #7
Well...let's see some of these threats then... dhill926 Oct 2017 #8

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
1. It really doesn't matter
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 09:05 AM
Oct 2017

If someone wants Pruitt that badly, all the security in the world isn't going to protect him!!!

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
4. OMG this Pruitt has million a day in secret service protection & private Jets for OFFICE management
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 09:15 AM
Oct 2017

JOB. He could do his job entirely on the phone and sit in his damn office.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
6. Damn Turd and his henchmen.
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 09:37 AM
Oct 2017

If Pruitt wasn't trying to destroy our environment, maybe he wouldn't need so much "security."

Seems like he's plotting some really bad stuff in secret - didn't he even install a SCIF for fuck sake?

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