EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his chief of staff may be telling Scott Pruitt they have his back, but other White House officials are making it clear that the EPA leader’s future in the administration is still very much in doubt. It was a familiar mixed message for anyone following the daily soap opera in the White House, where even public expressions of confidence in an embattled official can’t guarantee the person won’t be fired in a matter of days — or hours. It’s even true for an agency chief like Pruitt, who took another huge step Tuesday [4-3-18] toward fulfilling Trump’s pledge to dismantle former President Barack Obama’s environmental regulations.”
–Andrew Restuccia, Cristiano Lima and Nancy Cook, “White House lets Pruitt dangle,” Politico, April 3, 2018 3:31pm