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Jackson, Ryan[jackson.ryan@epa.gov] POLITICO Pro Energy Whiteboard Thur 9/28/2017 8:11:33 PM Grassley asks Trump to curb expensive travel by administration officials
By Eric Wolff
09/28/2017 04:07 PM EDT
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wants to know how President Donald Trump will curb private air travel by top members of his administration, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
"Please detail what steps the administration has taken to ensure that cabinet secretaries use the most fiscally responsible travel in accordance with the public trust they hold and the spirit and letter of all laws, regulations, and policies that apply," Grassley wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump today.
Grassley criticized reports of travel by military aircraft or charter jet by Pruitt, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. EPA has spent $58,000 on Pruitt's travel this year, including a charter flight to visit to the Gold King Mine in Colorado.
Noting that HHS Secretary Price has said he will not use charter jets while his department's inspector general reviews his travel, Grassley writes, "This development should be copied government-wide."
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