A Trump cabinet official has resigned under mounting pressure. The Washington Examiner reports:
Scott Pruitt stepped down as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, after a series of controversies that overshadowed his year of leading President Trump’s anti-regulation, pro-growth agenda.
“I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this. The Senate confirmed Deputy at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will on Monday assume duties as the acting Administrator of the EPA. I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!”
Pruitt had been under the microscope for months after a number of allegations. He was the subject of at least a dozen federal investigations, over issues including his $50-per-night condo rental deal with the wife of an energy lobbyist who had business before the EPA, spending more than $3 million on his 24-hour security detail, frequent first-class travel, reports he retaliated against employees who questioned his judgment, sending his staff on personal errands, and using them to try to find a job for his wife.
At least some of those actions were illegal.
Whether Pruitt will suffer additional repercussions remains to be seen.
You ca’t blame Scott Pruitt for leaving, as he has been under constant attack for travel spending much like his Obama selected predecessor. But no one paid attention during the Obama years. The rabid left aided by the press became a distraction to his goal of getting the EPA back to really protecting the Environment and not just blocking, willy nilly every development plan proposed. The EPA ignored the effects of wind generators on raptors during Obama’s tenure, Yet, they attached every fossil fuel development out of hand. They needed severe redirection. Hopefully Pruitt’s successor will continue his work.
You ca’t blame Scott Pruitt for leaving, as he has been under constant attack for travel spending much like his Obama selected predecessor. The rabid left aided by the press became a distraction to his goal of getting the EPA back to really protecting the Environment and not just blocking Willy billy every development plan proposed. The EPA ignored the effects of wind generators on raptors during Obama’s tenure, Yet they attached every fossil fuel development out of hand. They needed severe redirection. Hopefully Pruitt’s successor will continue his work.
every one of you are so full of it. you are all a bunch of idiots and there is no help for you because you keep buying in to all of the lies the gop tells really fell sorry for all of you stupid a$$. trump is a want to be dictator and you all are fine with that. when he goes to hell i hope he takes all of you with him.
Billy, you watch too much mainstream “propaganda”. No hard feelings. You just believe in mainstream fabrications.
Trump needs to get out of office NOW!!!
Why..what has he done that is against the Constitution?
Hey… Debbie how about YOU get out of OUR country NOW!
Trump needs to shake up the Justice Department by running Wormy Sessions and Scumball Rosenstein out of there and replacing them with someone who has a pair.
It always amuses me the mentality of the common moron. Even before President Trump was elected, people were calling for his head. What has the man done, while in office, that is grounds for removal from office? The Mullier witch hunt is a farce…Watters is calling for civil disobedience against anybody connected with the President…the “yellow” journalism is delivering FAKE NEWS on a minute by minute basis. No matter what this President does…or he says, it is DEMONIZE…Trump has been doing what he promised…is that the issue? Imagine that a “non-government, Washington insider” doing what the “SWAMP “ couldn’t do for eight years under the democratics…this is truly the problem with the bottom feeders. One should work for what they get…holding your hand out only breeds what we have today. A country of “take care of me—entitlement “. How many of you liberals want to do any of the cabinet positions? It is easy to sit and play “arm chair quarterback “…isn’t it. Time to accept the fact that the democratics lost…come together for the good of the country…stop your bellyaching. It stands to reasoning that many things must be changed, granted, but this takes time and Congress has to grow up, in order, to cross the aisle and pass legislation. The EPA needs congressional approval to bring bills into law for the President to sign. So, if there is blame to be had…check with Congress…
James Farquhar,
If you have any way to watch the 1 July 2018 episode of “Life, Liberty and Levin” you will get ALL your answers within one hour! His guest was Sean Hannity and they clearly laid out the answers to every question you asked above. The democrat party has been going off the rails since President Johnson started the first entitlement program we now know to be Social Security. When it was started it was the idea that “working” men and women could pay into a government fund to have a guaranteed income at a certain age for retirement. I don’t know when, where or how but somewhere along the way EVERYONE became eligible to draw from social security. But the rub here was those of us who are/were hard working Americans still only got back a percentage based on what we paid in over the years until recently (again, I don’t know when) when entitlements were limited to a certain amount for all. Then the rising of all these other entitlement programs came out of I have no idea where. I do remember my grandparents (who were dirt poor) being able to go to the county office once a month to receive their monthly supply of FOOD….not a debit card with money on it to be used any which way. The worst thing that ever happened to EBT (food stamps) was allowing them to be used in convenience stores. I have seen over and over in the state of FL where some obvious alcoholic/drug addict went into a convenience store to buy the largest can of beer and a pack of cigarettes. The “cashier” charged him thirty dollars for those two items, then gave him change for fifteen dollars and pocketed the other fifteen dollars. One of the big TV news stations in Central FL did an “expose'” on this yet it changed nothing.
As for this “witch hunt” against Trump….we are just blessed we, the caring, loving people of our flag and constitution had a man with a back bone who loves a good fight to come along when he did. What is happening in Washington is we have a man who is NOT a politician at the top of the food chain and is willing to go after anyone below him in order to take this country back from the hands of the demented as we were starting to roll down a slippery slope faster than anyone had knowledge of at the time of the election excepting the corrupt who thought they had it all sewed up into a nice package for Hillary. Well, they lost but are refusing to go down without a fight. Sit back my fried as up until about a week ago it was just the first round of volleys starting to go off in DC. Now the second round has begun even though this past week was a holiday week. I think with the last emails that were unveiled from Peter Strzuk last night on Tucker Carlson that round two has now begun. My prayers are just this never becomes a bloody battle as our country saw enough blood shed during the Civil War in which I personally lost ancestors.
Also, fret not if Trump’s SCOTUS selection is stonewalled by dems and a few RINOs. With the way the ball is rolling now I foresee no way the dems can get their act together in time to create that “blue wave” they were once touting. So long as Maxine Waters is near a television camera they are doomed! Nancy and Chuckie know she is their biggest liability but everyone has left her to her own devices for too long now. If you don’t believe me use your favorite search engine to check out her in association with the LA riots in 1992! Same old woman saying basically the same thing just in a different decade! It will chill you to the bones with some of what she says…she was just smart enough back then to both preface and end her commands with the phrase “peaceful protests” but she was mad as hell then and she is STILL MAD!!! I could go on with others in Congress but the better thing to do is start talking with your friends, family and neighbors. We have to stay motivated to get out and vote in November. This is one year we conservative/right cannot become complacent!
I agree thoroughly with you synopsis…You are right on the money. The modern day welfare state started with FDR…he kept it going because of the numbers being served. A stanch Democrat.
I totally agree with what u say. I believe Trump is doing a great job. the democrats don’t like him because he is getting things done. he is also working on making people on welfare work if they able.
James, great statement…
Trump is mentally sick and needs to be replaced immediately. He is also a communist and very dangerous to this democracy whether you want to hear it or not.
No, Gerry. It’s the leftist socialists who have become Communists. It’s difficult to tell them apart and in many cases, they are the same people.
The EPA under the environmental criminal Pruitt has gone beserk. I fully expect him to choke on coal dust.
Wrong is wrong, regardless of party affiliation or ideology. Now, back to more draining of the swamp of ALL who leech off the public and serve themselves!
what in the hell is so major about the epa head resigning….these are all tuff jobs and if you do or say one little asinine thing out of place…the leftist are there to pounce….so trump gets another epa leader…as long as he/she are on the same page trump is on…then who cares….
That great American Philosopher Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does!”
That great Americans philosopher FORREST GUMP said, “Stupid is as stupid does!”
TYPICAL Moron comment.
Move to Germany!
What it boils down to is un-regulated government intervention …
From your car to your workplace to the ditch in front of your house …
TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2018, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
I agree with Don . . . The EPA is an over-reach agency, misguided in its origin to regulate commerce in all it does. Nothing it sets out to do increases productivity and ALWAYS stifles growth and prosperity. If the Trump administration is looking to totally revamp and eventually shut down this over-bearing agency or even just to make it a watchdog entity (as it was intended) . . . I have no problem with that. As it is, this very powerful, bloated bully organization shuts down owners of private property with no regard to individual freedoms nor circumstances unique to any situation. As with the Dept. of Education . . . the crap heap is a waste of taxpayers dollars . . . relegate this back to the individual states. Then we can make the decision to move in or out of that state, freely !
I agree with Don as well..
What needs to happen it to topple the head of the administration, the Russian agent, Trump
What needs to happen is for you to move out of Country!!! Dim wit!!!
hill’s sick implication is bad enough but he actually believes his own garbage
TYPICAL Moron comment.
Move to Germany!
Ray is a koolaid drinker. No evidence of collusion. Zero, nada …..nothing Ray. You and the other delusional Demwits are just suffering from a mental disorder called “Soreloserism”. The cure is to stop whining, untie the knot in your panties, and grow a pair. I know that’s a lot to ask of a liberal, but we’re rooting for you. Well, not really. We just want your ignorant azz to go away.
You can’t change the insane. They’re insane!! The problem with America is that everyone has a strong opinion. That’s insane. Why do we feel a need to opine on every cotton-picken thing? We can’t keep our own lives straight, but wow, everybody’s smart suddenly. The kids don’t respect you, the wives are bitch’in and complain’in, the boss wishes you would quit, but you’re (in general, i’m speaking.) now an expert on North Korea, Iran, Nafta, and the EPA, etc. WTF!!!!
I forgot to add this pithy quote: “Opinions are like assholes. Everyone’s got one.”
What needs to happen is to topple the head of the administration, the Russian agent Trump
The EPA is nothing more than a bunch of left wing political hacks that needs to be gone. They’ve stepped way outside their boundaries when they start telling farmers they can’t dig ponds on their own property and that they control all waters in the country including streams/creeks. AND it’s all just to justify their jobs….typical government political games.
That is good news.