Now all that the EPA staff member working with the store needed was for a top Pruitt aide to sign off on the $3,230 order, which also included personalized journals. 12 Fountain Pens will be around $1,560.00,” the staffer emailed Aug. 14 to Millan Hupp, Pruitt’s head of scheduling and advance and a trusted confidante dating to his Oklahoma days. Pruitt “instead wanted the coin to feature some combination of symbols more reflective of himself and the Trump administration. “There have been decisions over the past 16 months that, as I look back, I would not make the same decisions again,” Pruitt told lawmakers. “Those who have attacked the EPA and attacked me are doing so because they want to derail the president’s agenda,” Pruitt said.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2018 16:02 UTC