Hi all, below is our Message of the Week on Pruitt’s hearing this Wednesday; our full message guidance on the subject is attached, as well.

Message of the Week

May 14, 2018

Scandal-plagued EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is heading to the Senate this week to answer for his mounting ethics violations and inability to keep his story straight. Will he deliver on his promises of transparency, or continue dodging questions and personal responsibility? This Wednesday, it’s up to the Senate to get answers for the American people.

• On Wednesday, Pruitt will appear before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies to review his Fiscal Year 2019 budget, but he’s also expected to face pointed questions into his wasteful spending of taxpayer funds; his countless conflicts of interest; and his dangerous assault on clean air, clean water, and climate change protections.
• Pruitt is not protecting the health and safety of the American people, which is his number one job. Instead, he has left criminal polluters unprosecuted and let corporate polluters off the hook. He has failed to live up to the EPA’s mission to protect our health and environment and instead has put us all in danger.
• Scott Pruitt is under at least 15 separate federal investigations for violating ethics rules, abusing taxpayer funds, and breaking federal law.
• Pruitt has spent more than $200,000 on luxury travel, including private jets, first-class airline tickets, and expensive dinners at exclusive restaurants. At EPA, Pruitt provided his staff with a wishlist of foreign countries that he wanted to visit and then instructed them to find official reasons for him to travel there.    
• 195 members of Congress, including both Republicans and Democrats, have called on Pruitt to step down due to his repeated abuses of power, ethics violations, and actions that fundamentally undermine the mission of the EPA.
• Scott Pruitt has failed the American people, failed to uphold the EPA’s mission to protect public health and the environment, and failed to meet the standard of conduct required by a public servant. He’s unfit for office and Trump should fire him immediately.

Thanks!

Lia