WASHINGTON ¨C U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt may not survive long in his job after reports that he paid below market rate to live in a condo owned by a lobbyist who deals with issues overseen by his agency, lawmakers and a former Trump official said in television interviews on Sunday.
On Friday, ABC News and Bloomberg News reported that during Pruitt¡¯s first six months in Washington last year, he made a deal to pay about $50 a night ¡ª less than a third the price of similar properties ¡ª to rent a room in a Capitol Hill neighborhood condo building co-owned by energy industry lobbyist Steven Hart and his wife.
¡°I don¡¯t know how you survive this one, and if he has to go, it¡¯s because he never should have been there in the first place, said Chris Christie, the Republican former governor of New Jersey, on Sunday on ABC News¡¯ ¡°This Week¡± program.
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