The following article by Eric Wolff, Emily Holden and Alex Guillen was posted on the Politico website website February 14, 2018:
The EPA spokesman said anyone seeking additional details about Pruitt’s travels would have to formally request them under FOIA.
EPA on Wednesday retracted its claim that Administrator Scott Pruitt has received a “blanket waiver” to fly first class whenever he travels, after POLITICO pointed officials to federal travel rules that appeared to bar such arrangements.
Pruitt has been routinely flying first class at taxpayers’ expense after securing what EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox had described as “blanket waiver,” POLITICO reported Tuesday. But the General Services Administration says federal rules require agencies’ oversight staffers to sign off on officials’ first- or business-class travel “on a trip-by-trip basis … unless the traveler has an up-to-date documented disability or special need.” Continue reading “EPA changes its story on Pruitt’s first-class travel”