Scott Pruitt requests funds for 24/7 bodyguards, as poised to cut health and safety programs
While the draft budget for the EPA obtained by the Washington Post this month shows massive cuts to environment, health, and climate change programs—including the elimination of a program to prevent childhood exposure to lead paint—it also includes a request to hire 10 additional security guards to create an around-the-clock personal security detail for Pruitt, the New York Times reports.
The Times calls it a first for an EPA chief, and notes that the 10 additional agents would more than double the agency’s current security staff, which has hovered between six and eight agents in recent years. Similarly, security detail for education secretary Betsy DeVos has reached unprecedented levels: Typically, the secretary of education is guarded by about six agents from within the Department of Education. Since her contentious confirmation, DeVos has been under the protection of the US Marshals Service, costing $8 million over eight months.
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And elimination of environmental protection services is at the top of the list. Mainly just to say fuck you to liberals and Obama. Which, never mind that a republican president created the EPA, because we live in a world where facts don't matter. Eliminating the environmental protection services is not what the people want, and they are afraid of a situation where they might actually be in public as opposed to kissing Trump's ass. 
That's the one thing they're doing a good job of, but that's the only thing that they do a good job of. And if their only job is pissing off the other side, that can't be good for anybody, and it definitely isn't good for the political division that's crippling us. 
