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Pruitt endangered safety forcing his drivers
#Pruitt endangered safety forcing his drivers upgrade#
Part of Pruitt's spending included $10,000 of EPA funds to upgrade his staff car to a roomier SUV because other cabinet secretaries had them. Mario Caraballo, who worked in the agency's Homeland Security Office, oversaw a report that questioned whether Pruitt's 20-person squad was necessary. This year an official who approved a report that undermined the need for that expanded protection detail was fired.
The newly minted boss got his wish despite the fact that taxpayers provided past administrators with only part-time government muscle. Typical annual security costs for Obama-era EPA chief Gina McCarthy were between $1.6 million and $2 million, but Pruitt burned through $3.5 million