EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt must know he’s in trouble when one of his mentors and long-time friends suggests maybe it’s time for him to resign.
The suggestion is from Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe who was interviewed on the Laura Ingraham radio show and told Ingraham that Pruitt “has really done some things that surprised me.”
He said it might be time for Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General “to leave that job.”
“All these things that are coming out are really not good things,. I’ve kind of taken the position that if that doesn’t stop, I’m going to be forced to be in a position where I’m going to say, ‘Well Scott, you’re not doing your job.’ And hopefully that will change.”
However, the Senator’s office later said he was not calling for Pruitt to resign.
But in response to comments from Ingraham that Pruitt was hurting the president with extravagant spending and embarrassing personal revelations, the Senator said, “I see these things. They upset me as much as they upset you, and something needs to happen to change that. I hate to sa this, I’ve got so many good friends in common with him, but everything you say is true. He’s got to get off these little things that are distracting and keeping him from doing the job that he’s supposed to be doing.”
Pruitt is already the subject of at least a dozen federal investigations from the EPA inspector general, the Government Accountability Office, the White House and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.