Pruitt Declines White House Help for Hearings

EPA chief Scott Pruitt “faces a make-or-break moment on Thursday, when he’s slated for a pair of congressional hearings, but he’ll be heading to the Hill without the full backing of the Trump White House,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Two sources familiar with Pruitt’s preparation for the hearing say that the EPA has turned down an offer from the White House to help prepare the administrator for what is sure to be a bruising few hours of questions about the ethics and government spending controversies that have dogged him of late.”

A White House official characterized the EPA’s response as “get lost.”