Sen. Tom Carper is criticizing the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for taking repeated trips with taxpayer dollars.
Carper, who sits on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, was responding to a report in the New York Times that EPA chief Scott Pruitt traveled to his home state of Oklahoma 10 times in three months, at a cost of $12,000.
In a statement, Carper said, “ Mr. Pruitt has spent more days in Oklahoma at this point than President Trump has spent at his golf courses, which is no minor feat.”
The nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project obtained Pruitt’s travel calendar using a Freedom of Information Act request.
Pruitt is allowed a travel allowance and hasn’t broken any laws.
But Carper argues “government officials have a responsibility to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars” and “Pruitt should be focused on doing the job he was hired to do.”
