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Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com)
Scott Pruitt's polarizing tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come to an end. From a report: President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that he has accepted Pruitt's resignation. Trump said that the agency's deputy administrator, Andrew Wheeler, will become the acting head of EPA. The departure follows months of scrutiny that gathered momentum following reports that Pruitt had rented a Capitol Hill condominium linked to an energy lobbyist on favorable terms. The revelation exacerbated concerns about the high cost of Pruitt's travel and security detail and triggered a flood of allegations that Pruitt fostered a culture of workplace retaliation, wasteful spending and self-dealing at EPA. The steady flow of negative news stories prompted multiple government investigators to open several inquiries into Pruitt. His EPA now faces about a dozen probes into its spending, ethics and policy decisions. In a statement, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said, "Good." Further reading: Judge Orders EPA To Produce Science Behind Pruitt's Climate Claims
I like the whole "look at his expensive pens" deal, I don't want the EPA administrator handing a $.50 pen to his worldwide counterparts left over from a job fair. Also, the whole"cone of silence." I like the fact that a cabinet position is taken seriously because that is direct in the line of succession, which means keeping up with top secret briefings and emails, as well as having a security detail and considering your travel. This is part of living in a nation with real enemies. The bottom line is the EPA administrates a lot of money to superfund and everything else which lefties have an entire infrastructure built around. He is a threat to that infrastructure and they need him out. The action now is to get someone in there who is 100x worse for the staff. The staff of federal agencies picking who leads them wasn't in my copy of the constitution and seems to be a very dangerous trend.
I'm willing to burn the entire United States to the ground just for a laugh!
Kill yourself.