It’s past time to fire Scott Pruitt, Trump’s head of the EPA. Whether he’s tearing apart climate change regulations or making it easier to spread toxic pesticides, Pruitt stands out as the most dangerous, and effective, members of Trump’s cabinet.
Your Representative can demand that Pruitt resign, and even fire him using the same impeachment process as for a President. But they won’t act unless and until we demand it.
That’s why we’ve teamed up with a host of other groups to demand Congress take action NOW. Will you sign on in support so we can deliver your name to Congress while the headlines are still fresh?
Pruitt’s been under fire for months over his bigoted, corrupt, and hurtful administration of our nation’s top Environmental Agency. But in the last week, it’s gotten really intense. The news has been so bad in the last week that when I confronted Republican Chair of the House oversight Committee Trey Gowdy (SC) — he of the Benghazi witch hunt — if he’d ask Pruitt to testify in his on-going investigation, Gowdy said “I’m not sure he’s going to make it that long. It gets worse every time there’s a report in the news.” (Scroll down to see the video my friend Elaine recorded)
Gowdy is already investigating Pruitt over reports that he has traveled first class on multiple trips. New scandals involve Pruitt giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in special raises to his favorite staff, in direct contravention of Whitehouse rules – and possibly lying about it in an on-camera interview with Fox news. That has had Congress seething and democrats, at least, demanding investigations. Pruitt is also under fire for getting a special deal from veteran D.C. lobbyists and longtime campaign contributors for a $50-a-night Capitol Hill Condo rental.
We’ve already seen that Trump will fire senior cabinet officials if they get caught in too big a scandal, or cross him publicly. Remember when Tom Price was fired for wasting taxpayer money on travel?
But Trump has already tweeted his support of Pruitt. And, even more frightening, is said to be considering Pruitt as a replacement for Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Sessions, remember, has recused himself from the Russia investigation. But Pruitt is under no such constraints – and might immediately fire Robert Mueller or otherwise tamper with that on-going investigation in exchange for Trump overlooking all these scandals and promoting him to our country’s top law enforcement official. We simply can’t let that happen. Congress needs to take action, now.
And as my interaction with Gowdy last week shows, it’s possible that even the most conservative Republicans will take action, given the mounting evidence of Pruitt’s corruption and malfeasance. Sign here to demand Congress take immediate action to #FirePruitt.