BEN CARSON/EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House will look into oversight reports on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said on Wednesday [4-18-18]…The White House will look into oversight reports on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said on Wednesday. The GAO, a government spending watchdog that reports to Congress, cited a requirement that executive branch agencies must notify Congress before spending more than $5,000 on certain office improvements.”
-Sophie Tatum, “White House looking into EPA’s Pruitt spending, Mulvaney says,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 18, 2018 6:02 pm