President Donald Trump backed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt amid a number of leftist attacks against the agency chief.
President Trump said on Monday, “Keep your head up, keep fighting. We have your back.”
White House chief of staff John Kelly reportedly also called Pruitt on Tuesday to reiterate his support for the head of the EPA.
Several of leftist reporters, pundits, and politicians came out recently to attack Pruitt and subsequently call for him to drop out.
CNN, the Washington Post, and other outlets have attacked Pruitt for renting out a condominium owned by lobbyists. Pruitt leased a room for roughly $50 a night, paying a total of $6,100.
Jahan Wilcox, an agency spokesman, retorted, “As EPA career ethics officials stated in a memo, Administrator Pruitt’s housing arrangement for both himself and family was not a gift and the lease was consistent with federal ethics regulations.”
Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign chairman John Podesta called for Pruitt to resign in an op-ed last week in the Washington Post.
Podesta wrote in his op-ed, “The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency has always been to protect human health and the environment. But since taking the helm just over a year ago, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has made no secret that his personal mission is to do the opposite.”
The EPA contends that Podesta serves as the latest part of a campaign from the liberal environmental group the Sierra Club.
The Washington Post editorial board called for Pruitt to resign on Monday.
The Natural Resources Defense Council, a leftist environmental group, called for Pruitt to step aside last week, arguing that Pruitt a “threat to the environment and our health.”
Much of leftist’s vitriol for the EPA administrator arises from his rampant dismantling of Obama’s climate agenda. As two Washington Post reporters noted in a December article:
Along the way, Pruitt has begun to dismantle former president Barack Obama’s environmental legacy, halting the agency’s efforts to combat climate change and to shift the nation away from its reliance on fossil fuels.
Such aggressiveness on issues from coal waste to vehicle emissions has made Pruitt one of Trump’s most high-profile and consequential Cabinet members. It also has made him one of the most controversial.
A Newsweek article called Pruitt, “the most dangerous member of Trump’s cabinet.” Breitbart News’ James Delingpole argued that President Trump “is winning at the Environmental Protection Agency.”
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The watermelons(Green on outside Red inside)only want other watermelons to hold jobs at NOAA,EPA and the Dept of the Interior like it was under Clinton and Obama
I say if the left is so up at arms about Scott Pruitt it shows he is doing the right things for the country. And would say that along with nominating Gorsuch for the SCOTUS Pruitt is probably his second most important appointment.
Obama’s EPA ignored the principles of diminishing returns, to the point of threatening Americans standard of living.
Labeling CO2 as a pollutant was a Thelma & Louise move. Leave the EPA on the rocks. Buzzards gotta eat, too.
Every time I hear Podesta’s name Seth Rich comes to mind . Who killed Seth Rich ? I think the FBI knows full well .
Scott Pruitt deserves 100 % support and little weasels that can’t run election campaigns should shut it .
The fact that Podesta is chirping is a sign of who he was working for .
Threaten to fire all coal workers and call voters deplorable .
Who were the geniuses that got her to say those campaign killing
words ? The same losers targeting Scott Pruitt .
The globalisation agenda hijacked the EPA and now they are in full squeal mode as their plans unravel .
Way to go Scott Pruitt and team . You have taken on the main weaponized Department of the eco-anarchists and you will win .
CNN(Fake News Network) Newsreek,NYT’s, and as for that Podesta wacko here is someone who should be a sanitation worker and cleaning up the kind of trash they deal out