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By Kaitlan Collins, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/politics/scott-pruitt-jeff-sessions-trump/index.html
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(CNN)Embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt directly appealed to President Donald Trump this spring to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and let him run the Department of Justice instead, according to three people familiar with the proposal. In an Oval Office conversation with Trump, Pruitt offered to temporarily replace Sessions for 210 days under the Vacancies Reform Act, telling the President he would return to Oklahoma afterward to run for office.
Pruitt's direct appeal to the President has not been reported previously.
Advisers quickly shot down the proposal, but it came at a time when Trump's frustration with Sessions over his decision to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation had resurfaced. Trump has complained loudly and publicly about the recusal for the last 14 months, and floated replacing Sessions with Pruitt as recently as April.
The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 gives the President the authority to temporarily fill a vacancy at a federal agency if the official "dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office."
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)Can't knock the hustle..
manor321
(3,344 posts)THIS is what I've been saying for the past few months. Trump refuses to fire him because he can fire Sessions and slide this guy in there without going through the Senate. The press should have been covering this angle with every Pruitt story.