In late March, the outlet, citing property records, revealed that Pruitt had lived much of his first year in Washington in a Capitol Hill townhouse owned by the wife of an energy lobbyist.
Even when Bloomberg reported shortly thereafter that Pruitt had paid a mere $50 a night to live in the condo, top officials were largely unbothered and felt the scrutiny would soon die down.
Less than a week later an official tipped me off that major pay raises were in the works for two young aides Pruitt had brought with him from Oklahoma.
After the report dropped, the official would later tell me, "There was a lot of anger. I think it's the first scandal where we actually now feel like we have skin in the game."
Once Pruitt "Iced out Ryan," one of the officials told me in late April, "He literally had zero friends between here and the White House. ...Trump is the single person left on Earth that doesn't want Pruitt fired."
Several current and former officials said that a feeling of "Numbness" took hold in the months that followed.
Scandals seemed to break by the day, and the number of ongoing investigations had risen to the point of unreality-to date, Pruitt faces 16.
"You'd just wake up every day holding your breath, wondering what would drop next," one of the former officials recalled.
Some officials relied on humor to ease tension and speed along the workdays.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/scott-pruitt-epa-chief-resigned/564518/
Even when Bloomberg reported shortly thereafter that Pruitt had paid a mere $50 a night to live in the condo, top officials were largely unbothered and felt the scrutiny would soon die down.
Less than a week later an official tipped me off that major pay raises were in the works for two young aides Pruitt had brought with him from Oklahoma.
After the report dropped, the official would later tell me, "There was a lot of anger. I think it's the first scandal where we actually now feel like we have skin in the game."
Once Pruitt "Iced out Ryan," one of the officials told me in late April, "He literally had zero friends between here and the White House. ...Trump is the single person left on Earth that doesn't want Pruitt fired."
Several current and former officials said that a feeling of "Numbness" took hold in the months that followed.
Scandals seemed to break by the day, and the number of ongoing investigations had risen to the point of unreality-to date, Pruitt faces 16.
"You'd just wake up every day holding your breath, wondering what would drop next," one of the former officials recalled.
Some officials relied on humor to ease tension and speed along the workdays.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/scott-pruitt-epa-chief-resigned/564518/
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