Trump Faces Growing Calls From Republicans, Conservatives To Fire Pruitt

June 13, 2018
Key Republican lawmakers and other Trump administration allies are heightening their concerns about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's ethics scandals, with many influential conservatives publicly calling for President Donald Trump to fire Pruitt or at least floating a scenario in which he leaves the agency. The continued reports about Pruitt's ethics and spending missteps “upset me as much as they upset you, and I think something needs to happen to change that,” Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), a long-time political patron of...


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