Scott Pruitt has shown an astonishing ability to stay on as director of the Environmental Protection Agency through scandals that would have felled nearly anyone else. President Donald Trump fired Tom Price, the secretary of Health and Human Services, over less.
Price was under fire for inappropriate taxpayer-funded travel. Pruitt has been accused of the same – and also of having his security detail run sirens so he could get to dinner at a nice French restaurant on time. And of trying to use his office to arrange a fast-food franchise deal for his wife. And of renting a condo from a lobbyist at a below-market rate. And of making an aide find a discount mattress for him. And probably more by the time you read this. (Here's a round-up.) He is already the subject of 12 federal investigations.
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