She and another staffer got significant raises this spring over the objections of officials in the White House Personnel Office. “It’s for confidential communications, and it’s rare.”Outside the Rayburn House Office Building, protesters arrived before Scott Pruitt Thursday to protest his leadership at the Environmental Protection Agency. (Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)At times, Pruitt professed to be unfamiliar with some of the technology his aides had installed in his office. Inside the White House, the EPA chief has lost the backing of many senior aides, including Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, and communications officials, lawyers and Cabinet affairs officials, whose calls he ignores. Pruitt, for his part, believes the White House is leaking damaging details about him and is “out to get him,” in the words of a Pruitt ally.

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2018 12:18 UTC