Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress
Source: WaPo
In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency’s director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request. Hupp wanted to know how much the hotel would charge EPA chief Scott Pruitt for purchasing one of its used mattresses.
Hupp’s search for a discount “Trump Home Luxury Plush Euro Pillow Top” mattress, which she detailed in a recent interview with congressional investigators, was one of several unusual tasks she performed for the administrator. The senior EPA official also scouted apartments for her boss in some of the District’s hippest neighborhoods, and helped arrange his family vacation to California over the New Year’s holiday so that the Pruitts could watch the Oklahoma Sooners play in the Rose Bowl.
Pruitt’s push to enlist a subordinate in his quest for cheap bedding--outlined in a letter Monday from two of the top Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Elijah Cummings (Md.) and Gerald E. Connolly (Va.) to the panel’s chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)--was one of several efforts he has made to minimize his personal expenses since moving to Washington. Last year he instructed aides to arrange work-related trips in August so that he could either be on the road or working from his home in Tulsa, according to two former EPA employees, rather than pay for an apartment rental in D.C. that month.
The Oversight and Government Reform Committee is conducting a probe of several spending and management decisions Pruitt has made since taking the helm of the EPA, including his decision to travel first-class as a security precaution until earlier this year and an unusual rental arrangement he struck with a D.C. lobbyist early last year, in which he paid $50 a night to stay at her Capitol Hill condo for nearly six months, but only on the nights when he slept there.
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