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<blockquote data-quote="Turdferguson" data-source="post: 4079091" data-attributes="member: 61703"><p><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/news/2018/01/16/444997/cost-corruption-waste-abuse-president-trumps-cabinet/" target="_blank">The Cost of Corruption: Waste and Abuse in President Trump’s Cabinet - Center for American Progress</a></p><p></p><p>Beyond his travel, Pruitt also spent nearly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/26/epa-spending-almost-25000-to-install-a-secure-phone-booth-for-scott-pruitt/?utm_term=.cfb34aed1fe8" target="_blank">$25,000</a>to create a so-called privacy booth in his office, which former EPA officials <a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060061891/search?keyword=privacy+booth" target="_blank">called</a> “bizarre” and a “headscratcher.” Furthermore, he sought to award a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/the-epa-hired-a-major-republican-opposition-research-firm-to-track-press-activity/" target="_blank">$120,000 no-bid contract</a> to a Republican opposition research firm to shape press coverage of the EPA. The firm decided to <a href="https://www.apnews.com/242fd35342c34a41b2e2db69b64c44d1" target="_blank">withdraw from that contract</a> after it was revealed that one of its top executives had been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-foia.html" target="_blank">secretly investigating EPA employees</a> for signs of bias against the Trump administration.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]249895[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Turdferguson, post: 4079091, member: 61703"] [URL="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/news/2018/01/16/444997/cost-corruption-waste-abuse-president-trumps-cabinet/"]The Cost of Corruption: Waste and Abuse in President Trump’s Cabinet - Center for American Progress[/URL] Beyond his travel, Pruitt also spent nearly [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/26/epa-spending-almost-25000-to-install-a-secure-phone-booth-for-scott-pruitt/?utm_term=.cfb34aed1fe8']$25,000[/URL]to create a so-called privacy booth in his office, which former EPA officials [URL='https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060061891/search?keyword=privacy+booth']called[/URL] “bizarre” and a “headscratcher.” Furthermore, he sought to award a [URL='http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/the-epa-hired-a-major-republican-opposition-research-firm-to-track-press-activity/']$120,000 no-bid contract[/URL] to a Republican opposition research firm to shape press coverage of the EPA. The firm decided to [URL='https://www.apnews.com/242fd35342c34a41b2e2db69b64c44d1']withdraw from that contract[/URL] after it was revealed that one of its top executives had been [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-foia.html']secretly investigating EPA employees[/URL] for signs of bias against the Trump administration. [ATTACH=full]249895[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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